Laura Russo (politician)

Laura Russo
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National Deputy
In office
10 December 2017 – 10 December 2021
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Personal details
Born (1981-11-01) 1 November 1981 (age 43)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party
Other political
affiliations		Unidad Ciudadana (2017–2019)
Frente de Todos (2019–present)
Alma materUADE

Laura Russo (born 1 November 1981) is an Argentine politician who served as a National Deputy from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Justicialist Party, Russo was elected in 2017 in Buenos Aires Province, and formed part of the Frente de Todos bloc from 2019 to 2021.

Early life and education

Russo was born on 1 November 1981 in Buenos Aires, and spent her childhood in the Villa Urquiza neighbourhood. Her father is Argentine, while her mother is Japanese.[1] She finished high school in Belgrano and studied Public Relations at the Argentine University of Enterprise.[2]

Russo was married to Ariel Sujarchuk, the intendente (mayor) of Escobar, until 2019.[3] Sujarchuk and Russo have two children.[1]

Political career

Russo ran for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in the 2017 legislative election; she was the 13th candidate in the Unidad Ciudadana list in Buenos Aires Province.[4] Before that, she was a councilwoman in Escobar Partido.[5] The Unidad Ciudadana list received 36.28% of the votes, and Russo made it past the D'Hondt cut to be elected. She was sworn in on 6 December 2017.[6]

As a national deputy, Russo formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Families, Childhood and Youth (of which she was appointed vice-president), Municipal Affairs, Commerce, Consumer Rights and Competition, Petitions, Foreign Affairs and Worship, and Tourism.[7] She was a supporter of the 2020 Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill, which legalized abortion in Argentina. Her support for the bill caused protesters to stage an intervention in front of her home in Belén de Escobar.[8]

In 2021, she was appointed President of the "Parliamentary Commission on Friendship with the United States", and in June 2021 she accompanied Chamber of Deputies president Sergio Massa on a diplomatic trip to the Washington, D.C. to meet with members of the United States Congress.[9][10]

Russo did not run for re-election in 2021, and her term expired on 9 December 2021.

Electoral history

Electoral history of Laura Russo
Election Office List # District Votes Result Ref.
Total % P.
2013 Councillor Front for Victory 1[a] Escobar Partido 29,876 25.25% 2nd[b] Elected [11]
2017 National Deputy Unidad Ciudadana 10 Buenos Aires Province 3,383,114 36.28% 2nd[b] Elected [12]
  1. ^ Alternate candidate.
  2. ^ 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 Yacuzzi, Ciro D. (August 2017). ""Tengo bajo perfil, pero convicciones firmes"". Día 32 (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Laura Russo". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Ariel Sujarchuk se mostró junto a su novia Macarena Lemos en Pinamar Moda Look". El Día de Escobar (in Spanish). 10 January 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Elecciones 2017: famosos, periodistas y otras sorpresas del cierre de listas". La Nación (in Spanish). 24 June 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  5. ^ "La sorpresiva lista de diputados nacionales de Unidad Ciudadana: quiénes son los candidatos de Cristina". La Nación (in Spanish). 24 June 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Ya es diputada: Laura Russo asumió su banca en el Congreso de la Nación". El Día de Escobar (in Spanish). 6 December 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Laura Russo | Comisiones". HCDN (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Antiderechos convocan a escrachar a la diputada Laura Russo por estar a favor de la legalización del aborto". Página/12 (in Spanish). 25 November 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  9. ^ Cayón, David (4 June 2021). "Se renovó el grupo parlamentario de amistad con los Estados Unidos en la previa del viaje de Sergio Massa". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  10. ^ Riccobene, Antonio (11 June 2021). "¿Quién es la diputada que acompaña a Massa a Estados Unidos?". Infocielo (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Escrutinio Definitivo" (PDF). juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar (in Spanish). Junta Electoral de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  12. ^ "Elecciones 2017". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. Retrieved 4 February 2023.