Silvina García Larraburu

Silvina Marcela García Larraburu (born 16 January 1969) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Senator for Río Negro Province since 2013. She previously served as a National Deputy from 2011 to 2013, and as a provincial legislator in Río Negro.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is García and the second or maternal family name is Larraburu.
Silvina García Larraburu
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National Senator
Assumed office
10 December 2013
ConstituencyRío Negro
National Deputy
In office
10 December 2011 – 10 December 2013
ConstituencyRío Negro
Provincial Legislator of Río Negro
In office
10 December 2007 – 10 December 2011
ConstituencyProvincial list
Personal details
Born (1969-01-16) 16 January 1969
San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party
Other political
affiliations		Front for Victory (2003–2017)
Citizen's Unity (2017–2019)
Frente de Todos (since 2019)
Alma materArgentine University of Enterprise

Early life and education

García Larraburu was born on 16 January 1969 in San Carlos de Bariloche,[1] to a family of Basque descent. She comes from a politically active family, and her father was active in the peronist movement, while her mother was a sympathizer of the Radical Civic Union. Her great-grandfather, Martín Larraburu, was a mayor in La Pampa.[2]

García Larraburu counts with a degree on Public Relations from the Argentine University of Enterprise (UADE), having graduated in 1991.[3]

Political career

García Larraburu's political career began in the Justicialist Party. From 1995 to 1999, she was director of public relations at the municipality of San Carlos de Bariloche, during the mayorship of César Miguel. She was elected to the city council of Bariloche in 2003 as part of the Front for Victory (FPV). Later, in 2007, she was elected to the legislature of Río Negro Province.[1]

In 2011, García Larraburu was the first candidate in the Front for Victory list to the Chamber of Deputies in Río Negro; the list was the most voted, with 70.10% of the vote, and García Larraburu was elected (alongside all the other candidates in the list).[4][5]

Two years after being elected as deputy, García Larraburu was the second FPV candidate to the National Senate in Río Negro in the 2013 legislative election, behind Miguel Ángel Pichetto. The FPV list was the most voted in the province, with 49.92% of the vote, and the FPV took the two seats for the majority.[6] She originally formed part of the Front for Victory bloc, later joining most other Justicialist Party senators in breaking away and forming the Argentina Federal bloc following the 2017 legislative election.[7] She would, eventually, return to the FPV bloc in 2018.[8]

As senator, García Larraburu formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Administrative and Municipal Affairs, Women's Affairs, Regional Economies and Small Businesses, Science and Technology, Tourism, and Environment.[1] Citing religious grounds, she was the sole member of the FPV bloc to vote against the 2018 Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill, which would have made abortion legal in Argentina and had been approved by the lower house of Congress but was struck down by the Senate.[9] When a similar bill was presented before the Senate again in 2020, García Larraburu changed her position and voted in favour of the measure, stating she had understood the issue of abortion was "beyond [her] personal beliefs", instead deserving the treatment of a "public health issue."[10]

She was re-elected for a second term in 2019, as the second candidate in the Frente de Todos (FDT) list, behind Martín Doñate. The list was the most voted, with 50.46% of the vote, granting the FDT the two majority seats.[11]

References
  1. "Silvina Marcela García Larraburu". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  2. Centenera, Mar (8 January 2021). "Silvina García Larraburu, la senadora argentina que pasó del 'no' al 'sí' al aborto". El País (in Spanish).
  3. ""Rubia pero peronista": quién es la senadora que promueve una junta de granos". La Nación (in Spanish). 7 May 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  4. "García Larraburu: "Tenemos que ser grandes, tener mentalidad de grandes para poner de pié a Río Negro"". Tres Líneas (in Spanish). 24 October 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  5. "Resultados nacionales 2011 | Total país" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 January 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  6. "El FPV en Río Negro retuvo las bancas en el Senado y obtiene la totalidad de los escaños en Diputados". Télam (in Spanish). 27 October 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  7. "Cristina ya tiene bloque: quiénes son los senadores que la acompañarán". El Cronista (in Spanish). 11 December 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  8. "Una senadora rionegrina deja el PJ y se suma al bloque kirchnerista". Télam (in Spanish). 19 April 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  9. "Aborto: la senadora kirchnerista que cambió su voto en los últimos días criticó a Durán Barba y comparó a la Argentina con Haití". Infobae (in Spanish). 8 August 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  10. Ybarra, Gustavo (30 December 2020). "Aborto legal: Silvina García Larraburu, el primer voto "celeste" que devino en "verde", al borde del llanto". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  11. "Elecciones 2019: resultados finales en Río Negro". Río Negro (in Spanish). 28 October 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
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