Gloria Rodríguez | |
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Senator of Uruguay | |
Assumed office 15 February 2020 | |
Representative of Uruguay for Montevideo | |
In office 15 February 2015 – 15 February 2020 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Gloria Rudi Rodríguez Santo 26 October 1960 Melo, Uruguay |
Political party | National Party |
Occupation |
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Gloria Rudi Rodríguez Santo (born 26 October 1960) is a Uruguayan journalist, civil servant, activist and politician of the National Party (PN), serving as Senator of the Republic since 15 February 2020. [1] The first Afro-Uruguayan woman to hold a senatorial seat, [2] she is fourth in the line of presidential succession. [3]
Gloria Rodríguez was born in 1960 in Melo, Cerro Largo Department. Her father, was a policeman, and her mother, a domestic worker. Her parents knew Jorge Silveira Zabala, a leader of the National Party in Cerro Largo, who was the one who transmitted the ideology to her. [4] In 1991, after divorcing, she moved to Montevideo with her children and great-grandmother. She settled in the barrio Malvín Norte. [5] She worked as a secretary at the Colegio María Auxiliadora, as a shop assistant and as an official of the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, and the Ministry of Education and Culture. [4] She studied journalism at the Professional Institute of Journalism Teaching (IPEP). [6]
Rodríguez began her militancy in the 90s, distributing ballots from List 71, of the Herrerism faction of the National Party in Malvín Norte. [6] During the 2002 Uruguay banking crisis, she set up a community soup kitchen, which fed 70 children in the area. [7] Since then she has been dedicated to community work in slums. [8]
She participated in the 2014 general election as a member of Todos, a faction led by Luis Lacalle Pou. She ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, being elected National Representative for the 48th Legislature. [9] [10] She took office on February 15, 2015, becoming the first Afro-Uruguayan woman to hold a seat in the lower house of the General Assembly of Uruguay. [7] In the 2019 election, she was elected Senator for the 49th Legislature. Thus she became the first Afro-Uruguayan woman to hold a senatorial seat in Uruguay. [11] She stated "we have to work a lot so that the fact that a black woman reaches Parliament does not surprise anyone". [12]
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Gloria Rodríguez | |
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Senator of Uruguay | |
Assumed office 15 February 2020 | |
Representative of Uruguay for Montevideo | |
In office 15 February 2015 – 15 February 2020 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Gloria Rudi Rodríguez Santo 26 October 1960 Melo, Uruguay |
Political party | National Party |
Occupation |
|
Gloria Rudi Rodríguez Santo (born 26 October 1960) is a Uruguayan journalist, civil servant, activist and politician of the National Party (PN), serving as Senator of the Republic since 15 February 2020. [1] The first Afro-Uruguayan woman to hold a senatorial seat, [2] she is fourth in the line of presidential succession. [3]
Gloria Rodríguez was born in 1960 in Melo, Cerro Largo Department. Her father, was a policeman, and her mother, a domestic worker. Her parents knew Jorge Silveira Zabala, a leader of the National Party in Cerro Largo, who was the one who transmitted the ideology to her. [4] In 1991, after divorcing, she moved to Montevideo with her children and great-grandmother. She settled in the barrio Malvín Norte. [5] She worked as a secretary at the Colegio María Auxiliadora, as a shop assistant and as an official of the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, and the Ministry of Education and Culture. [4] She studied journalism at the Professional Institute of Journalism Teaching (IPEP). [6]
Rodríguez began her militancy in the 90s, distributing ballots from List 71, of the Herrerism faction of the National Party in Malvín Norte. [6] During the 2002 Uruguay banking crisis, she set up a community soup kitchen, which fed 70 children in the area. [7] Since then she has been dedicated to community work in slums. [8]
She participated in the 2014 general election as a member of Todos, a faction led by Luis Lacalle Pou. She ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, being elected National Representative for the 48th Legislature. [9] [10] She took office on February 15, 2015, becoming the first Afro-Uruguayan woman to hold a seat in the lower house of the General Assembly of Uruguay. [7] In the 2019 election, she was elected Senator for the 49th Legislature. Thus she became the first Afro-Uruguayan woman to hold a senatorial seat in Uruguay. [11] She stated "we have to work a lot so that the fact that a black woman reaches Parliament does not surprise anyone". [12]
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