Camila Crescimbeni (born 22 March 1990) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province since 2019. She is a member of Republican Proposal (PRO).

Camila Crescimbeni
National Deputy
Assumed office
10 December 2019
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Personal details
Born (1990-03-22) 22 March 1990 (age 34)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political partyRepublican Proposal
Other political
affiliations
Juntos por el Cambio (2015–present)
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires

Crescimbeni was a member of the City Council of Almirante Brown from 2017 to 2019, and served as the president of Jóvenes PRO – Republican Proposal's youth wing – from 2018 to 2020.

Early life and career edit

Crescimbeni was born on 22 March 1990 in Buenos Aires.[1] She finished high school at Northlands School, in Olivos. She studied political science at the University of Buenos Aires, graduating in 2013. Crescimbeni earned a Fulbright scholarship and from 2008 to 2010 studied at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, Washington and Lee University, and the Western Reserve Academy.[2] She is married.[1]

Political career edit

From 2013 to 2015, Crescimbeni was an advisor at the Undersecretariat of Financial Administration at the Education Ministry of the Buenos Aires City Government.[2] She was elected to the Almirante Brown Partido city council in 2017, as part of the Cambiemos list.[3] In 2018, she became president of Jóvenes PRO, the youth wing of Republican Proposal, succeeding Pedro Robledo.[4][5]

Crescimbeni ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 2019 legislative election as the 14th candidate in the Juntos por el Cambio list in Buenos Aires Province.[6] The list received 37.82% of the vote, and Crescimbeni was elected.[7]

As a national deputy, Crescimbeni formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Families, Childhood and Youth, Housing and Urban Planning, Social Action and Public Health, Cooperative Affairs, Culture, and Women and Diversity.[8] She was a vocal supporter of the legalization of abortion in Argentina. She voted in favour of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill that passed the Argentine Congress in 2020.[9] She was also a supporter of the law on environmental education for public officials, the so-called Ley Yolanda, named after Yolanda Ortiz.[10]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Camila Crescimbeni". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Camila Crescimbeni". HCDN (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Brown ya tiene a sus nuevos concejales". El Termómetro Web (in Spanish). 11 December 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  4. ^ Fortin, Lucía (26 April 2018). "Quién es Camila Crescimbeni, la nueva presidenta de la juventud del Pro". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  5. ^ "La politóloga que lidera a la juventud PRO". Diario Publicable (in Spanish). 25 December 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  6. ^ Tagliabúe, Leonardo (22 June 2019). "La lista completa de candidatos a diputados del oficialismo en provincia de Buenos Aires". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Cómo quedará conformado el Congreso a partir del 10 de diciembre". Ámbito (in Spanish). 28 October 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Camila Crescimbeni | Comisiones". HCDN (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  9. ^ Beck, Ingrid (1 December 2020). ""El oficialismo no se hubiese arriesgado a enviar el aborto sin los avales"". Letra P (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Sancionan la "Ley Yolanda" de formación integral en medio ambiente". Ámbito (in Spanish). 18 November 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2021.

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