Английская Википедия:Gloria Rodríguez Santo
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox officeholder 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 since 15 February 2020.[1] She is fourth in the line of presidential succession.[2]
Biography
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.[3] In 1991, after divorcing, she moved to Montevideo with her children and great-grandmother. She settled in the barrio Malvín Norte.[4] 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.[3] She studied journalism at the Professional Institute of Journalism Teaching (IPEP).[5]
Political career and activism
Rodríguez began her militancy in the 90s, distributing ballots from List 71, of the Herrerism faction of the National Party in Malvín Norte.[5] During the 2002 Uruguay banking crisis, she set up a community soup kitchen, which fed 70 children in the area.[6] Since then she has been dedicated to community work in slums.[7]
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.[8][9] 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.[6] 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.[10] She stated "we have to work a lot so that the fact that a black woman reaches Parliament does not surprise anyone".[11]
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