Karina Banfi
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National Deputy
Assumed office
10 December 2015
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Personal details
Born (1972-02-27) 27 February 1972 (age 51)
Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Political partyRadical Civic Union
Other political
affiliations		Juntos por el Cambio (2015–present)
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires

Karina Verónica Banfi (born 27 February 1972) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province since 2015. She is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).

Early life and education

Banfi was born on 27 February 1972 in Bahía Blanca. She studied law at the University of Buenos Aires and has a postgraduate degree on Law and Compared Media Policies from Oxford University and another on Inter-American and International Human Rights Protection Systems from the Washington College of Law. She is married to Hernán Charosky and has two children.[1]

Political career

Banfi served as Regional Coordinator of Transparency and Governance Programmes at the Organization of American States, and as advisor on Freedom of Expression at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.[1]

Banfi ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 2015 legislative election, as the tenth candidate in the Cambiemos list in Buenos Aires Province.[2] The list came second with 33.75% of the vote, and Banfi was elected.[3] She was re-elected in 2019, again as the tenth candidate in the Juntos por el Cambio list.[4]

As a national deputy, Banfi formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Communications and Informatics, General Legislation, Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights and Guarantees, Freedom of Expression, Petitions, Powers and Norms, and Foreign Affairs.[5] Banfi was a vocal supporter of the legalization of abortion in Argentina. She voted in favor of the two Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills that were debated by the Argentine Congress in 2018 and 2020.[6][7]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Karina Banfi
Election Office List # District Votes Result Ref.
Total % P.
2015 National Deputy Cambiemos 10 Buenos Aires Province 3,037,552 33.75% 2nd[a] Elected [8]
2019 Juntos por el Cambio 10 Buenos Aires Province 3,668,580 37.77% 2nd[a] Elected [9]
  1. ^ a b Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.

References

  1. ^ a b "Karina Verónica Banfi". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 April 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Karina Banfi: "La sociedad apostó a la alternancia y el equilibrio"". La Licuadora TDF (in Spanish). 21 November 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Elecciones 2015: la conformación del próximo Congreso en tiempo real". La Nación (in Spanish). 26 October 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Karina Banfi | Comisiones". HCDN (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Karina Banfi sobre el aborto clandestino: "Salud sabe que mueren 246 mujeres al año"". Unidiversidad (in Spanish). 6 March 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Karina Banfi: "Estamos debatiendo el aborto con una mirada sanitaria y no criminal"". El Intransigente (in Spanish). 11 December 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Elecciones 2015". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Elecciones 2019". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. Retrieved 4 February 2023.

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