Carolina Gaillard
National Deputy
Assumed office
19 December 2019
ConstituencyEntre Ríos
In office
10 December 2013 – 10 December 2017
ConstituencyEntre Ríos
Personal details
Born (1981-12-10) 10 December 1981 (age 42)
General Campos, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party
Other political
affiliations		Front for Victory (2007–2017)
Unidad Ciudadana (2017–2019)
Frente de Todos (2019–present)
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires

Ana Carolina Gaillard (born 10 December 1981) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in Entre Ríos Province. Having originally run in 2017, she took office on 19 December 2019, following the resignation Juan José Bahillo. She previously served as deputy from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Justicialist Party, Gaillard sits in the Frente de Todos bloc.

Early and personal life

Gaillard was born on 10 December 1981 in General Campos, a small town in the San Salvador Department of Entre Ríos Province. She studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, and counts with a master's degree on Public Policy from the same university.[1]

She is in a relationship with former Justicialist Party deputy for Buenos Aires Province, Nicolás Rodríguez Saá, with whom she has a son, Felipe, born in 2020.[2][3]

Political career

Gaillard became involved with student politics as a law student in the University of Buenos Aires.[4] She served as a parliamentary secretary and legislative aide at the National Congress from 2007 to 2011.[1]

In the 2009 legislative election, she ran for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as the tenth candidate in the Front for Victory list in Buenos Aires; the list received 11.61% of the popular vote, and Gaillard was not elected.[5] In 2011, she was appointed Director of the Casa de Entre Ríos, the "cultural embassy" of Entre Ríos Province in Buenos Aires.[6]

National deputy

Ahead of the 2013 legislative election, Gaillard was nominated as the second candidate in the Front for Victory list to the Chamber of Deputies, behind José Eduardo Lauritto.[7] The list was the most voted in the province, with 46.65% of the vote, and Gaillard was elected.[8] Gaillard ran for re-election in 2017, as the fourth candidate in the Frente Justicialista Somos Entre Ríos list, but the list did not receive enough votes for Gaillard to be re-elected.[9]

During her absence from Congress, Gaillard was Secretary of Tourism and Culture of Entre Ríos Province.[1]

She took office as deputy again on 19 December 2019, following the resignation of Juan José Bahillo from the Chamber to become a minister in the Entre Ríos provincial government.[10] She formed part of the Frente de Todos bloc.

As deputy, Gaillard was a supporter of the legalization of abortion in Argentina, and voted in favor of the 2020 Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill, which passed the Chamber.[11] In response to her support for the bill, anti-abortion protesters targeted her family's bakery in General Campos.[12]

Ahead of the 2021 primary election, Gaillard was confirmed as one of the candidates for re-election in the Frente de Todos list in Entre Ríos.[13] With 31.63% of the vote, the FDT list received enough votes for Gaillard to be re-elected.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ana Carolina Gaillard". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  2. ^ "La curiosa historia de los diputados que juraron hoy y son pareja". Filo.news (in Spanish). 19 December 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  3. ^ "La historia de amor de dos diputados que trabajan juntos en el Congreso y fueron papás". Perfil (in Spanish). 5 March 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  4. ^ "ENTREVISTA A «CARITO» GAILLARD". Juventud Informada (in Spanish). 19 June 2009. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Entre Ríos: La número dos de la lista de Urribarri no puede votar en la provincia". La Política Online (in Spanish). 7 August 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Carolina Gaillard es la nueva directora de la Casa de Entre Ríos en Buenos Aires". Secretaría de Comunicación de Entre Ríos (in Spanish). 15 December 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Se oficializaron en Entre Ríos las listas para las PASO". Télam (in Spanish). 23 June 2013. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Recorriendo las Elecciones". Dirección Nacional Electoral (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Resultados de las elecciones 2017, provincia por provincia". Clarín (in Spanish). 23 October 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Gaillard confirmó que reemplazará a Bahillo en la Cámara de Diputados de la Nación". APF Digital (in Spanish). 3 December 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Aborto legal: Carolina Gaillard confía en la aprobación del proyecto". UNO Entre Ríos (in Spanish). 10 December 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Aborto: escracharon un local de los padres de la diputada Carolina Gaillard". Perfil (in Spanish). 30 November 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  13. ^ "Entre Ríos: consenso en el FdT; JxC a PASO real". Ámbito (in Spanish). 24 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  14. ^ "Diputados: quiénes entran y quiénes salen por Entre Ríos". Uno Entre Ríos (in Spanish). 15 November 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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