Graciela Bianchi

Graciela Elena Bianchi Poli (born 14 November 1953) is a Uruguayan lawyer, notary, teacher, and politician of the National Party. She currently serves as Senator of Uruguay in the 49th Legislature. She is known for her interventions in constant confrontation with the opposition and for posting fake news on social media.[1][2]

Graciela Bianchi
Senator of Uruguay
Assumed office
15 February 2020
Representative of Uruguay
for Montevideo
In office
15 February 2015 – 15 February 2020
Personal details
Born (1953-11-14) November 14, 1953
Uruguay
Political party
Alma materUniversity of the Republic
OccupationProfessor, politician, lawyer, notary

Early life and education

Coming from a leftist family, her paternal and maternal grandparents emigrated to Uruguay escaping from Benito Mussolini's regime in Italy.[3] She studied teaching at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas. After 35 years in teaching, she is currently retired.[4] She was a secondary education director of the Liceo Bauzá for 18 years, secretary of Germán Araújo in the Senate, and secretary of the Central Directing Council (CODICEN). She worked until 2014 as a panelist on the daytime talk show Esta boca es mía broadcast on Teledoce.[5]

Political career

In 2013 she joined the National Party.[6] In the 2014 primaries, she endorsed Luis Lacalle Pou for president, being elected Senator and Deputy for Montevideo. In January 2015, she announced that she would not assume her seat in the Senate, opting to take on deputies, in accordance with the provisions of Article 101 of the Constitution of the Republic.[7]

In the 2019 general election, she was elected senator for the 49th Legislature. She assumed her seat on February 15, 2020, and since March of that year, she has been second in the presidential line of succession.[8]

Personal life

Bianchi is married and the mother of two children, the elder a notary and the younger an architect.[9]

References
  1. ElPais. ""Gaucho trucho" y "lo peor viene después del 27 de marzo": cruce entre Bianchi y Valenti en Twitter". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  2. Redacción. "Bianchi difundió una declaración falsa de Víctor Hugo Morales: el relator le pidió "chequear mejor"". El Observador. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
  3. "Entrevista a Graciela Bianchi". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  4. "Bianchi, la del Bauzá: 'Netto o el pato Donald es lo mismo al frente del Codicen'" [Bianchi, of the Bauzá: 'Netto and Donald Duck Are the Same in Front of the Council']. LaRed21 (in Spanish). 16 September 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  5. "Esta Boca es Mía se renovó en la Tele" [Esta Boca es Mía Was Renewed On the Tele]. La República (in Spanish). 28 May 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  6. Melgar, Pablo (11 June 2013). "'El Frente da vergüenza y no quiero ser cómplice'" ['The Front is Ashamed and I Do Not Want to Be an Accomplice']. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  7. "Bianchi no va al Senado, asume Delgado" [Bianchi Does Not Go to the Senate, Delgado Assumes]. 180 (in Spanish). 27 January 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  8. "Graciela Bianchi será presidenta de la República en caso de ausencia …". archive.ph. 2021-05-22. Archived from the original on 2021-05-22. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  9. Lauro, Jorge; García, Alfredo (26 February 2012). "Graciela Bianchi, directora del Bauzá: Hay una pequeña burguesía de burócratas mediocres que no quieren bajarse de los autos oficiales" [Graciela Bianchi, Director of the Bauzá: There is a Petty Bourgeoisie of Mediocre Bureaucrats Who Do Not Want to Get Out of the Official Cars]. Semanario Voces (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 December 2017.
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