Eduardo de Pedro

Eduardo Enrique "Wado"[1] de Pedro (born 11 November 1976) is an Argentine lawyer and Justicialist Party politician currently serving as the country's Minister of the Interior. He previously served as National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province, as member of the Council of Magistracy, and General Secretary to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Eduardo de Pedro
Minister of the Interior
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 December 2019
President	Alberto Fernández
Preceded by	Rogelio Frigerio
Councillor of Magistracy
In office 21 November 2018 – 10 December 2019
Appointed by	Chamber of Deputies
In office 4 February 2014 – 26 February 2015
Appointed by	Chamber of Deputies
National Deputy
In office 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019
Constituency	Buenos Aires
In office 10 December 2011 – 26 February 2015
Constituency	Buenos Aires
General Secretary of the Presidency
In office 26 February 2015 – 10 December 2015
President	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Preceded by	Aníbal Fernández
Succeeded by	Fernando de Andreis
Personal details
Born	11 November 1976 Mercedes, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Political party	Justicialist Party
Other political affiliations	Front for Victory (2003–2017) Citizen's Unity (2017–2019) Frente de Todos (2019–present)
Alma mater	University of Buenos Aires University of San Andrés

De Pedro was one of the founding members of La Cámpora, the Front for Victory's youth wing. He served as Vice-president of Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral Líneas Aéreas from 2009 to 2011.

Early life and education

Eduardo Enrique de Pedro was born on 11 November 1976 in Mercedes, in Buenos Aires Province. His father, Eduardo Osvaldo de Pedro (b. 1950), a law student at the University of Buenos Aires and a member of the social justice organization Montoneros, was killed by the National Reorganization Process dictator regime in 1977.[2] His mother, Lucila Adela Révora (b. 1953) was kidnapped by state authorities in 1978 while being pregnant; her name is mentioned in the Nunca Más report. The two-year-old Eduardo Enrique was thereafter raised by his aunt Estela Révora.[1][3][4]

De Pedro has had a stutter since childhood.[5] Like his father, de Pedro studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, and then went on to receive a Master's Degree on public policy at the University of San Andrés. He is a founding member of HIJOS.[6][7][8]

Political career

De Pedro's political career began in 2004 when he was designated Chief of Cabinet of the Undersecretariat of Tourism of Buenos Aires City, during the administration of Aníbal Ibarra.[9] In 2006, alongside Máximo Kirchner, Andrés Larroque, Juan Cabandié, Mariano Recalde and José Ottavis, de Pedro co-founded La Cámpora, a youth political organization that acted as the youth wing of the Front for Victory.[10] In 2009, he was appointed to the board of the recently re-nationalized Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral Líneas Aéreas.[11][12]

In 2011 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the Front for Victory list, representing Buenos Aires Province. Representing the majority bloc in the Chamber, de Pedro was designated as member of the Council of Magistracy of the Nation in February 2014.[13][14]

On 26 February 2015 he was designated as General Secretary of the Presidency under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a post he held until 10 December 2015, when Fernández de Kirchner's term ended.[15] De Pedro headed the Front for Victory's deputies party list in Buenos Aires Province in the 2015 legislative election, and in 2018 he was again designated as one of the Chamber's representatives to the Council of Magistracy, this time representing the minority bloc.[16][17]

Since 10 December 2019, he has served in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández as Minister of the Interior.[9]

References

1. "La dramática historia que une a "Wado" De Pedro y "Juani" Ustarroz". Perfil (in Spanish). 14 July 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
2. "DE PEDRO, Enrique Osvaldo". robertobaschetti.com (in Spanish). 26 February 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
3. "Causa 19.580, punto V- a. Hecho ocurrido en la calle Belén № 335, dpto. "2" de Capital Federal, el 11 de octubre de 1978". Desaparecidos.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2020.
4. "RÉVORA LUCILA ADELA" (PDF). Registro unificado de víctimas del terrorismo de Estado - Listado L-Z. Secretaría de Derechos Humanos de la Nación. 8 December 2015. p. 1025.
5. ""Wado" De Pedro, el líder de La Cámpora que construyó su propio poder bajo el paraguas de Cristina Kirchner". Infobae (in Spanish). 6 December 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
6. "Los hijos que llegaron a ser candidatos". Página/12 (in Spanish). 11 September 2011. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
7. "¿Quién es "Wado" De Pedro, el nuevo secretario general de la Presidencia?". TN.com.ar (in Spanish). 26 February 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
8. "El mercedino "Wado" de Pedro en los medios nacionales mencionado como nueva estrella política". hoymercedes.com.ar (in Spanish). 21 December 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
9. Pepe, Gabriela (4 November 2019). "Hablen con Wado". Letra P (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2020.
10. "Quién es Wado De Pedro, el camporista que gana poder en el Gobierno". El Cronista (in Spanish). 26 February 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
11. "El mercedino Eduardo De Pedro se suma al directorio de Aerolíneas Argentinas - Austral". Noticias Mercedinas (in Spanish). 21 July 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
12. Bruschtein, Julián (27 February 2015). "Desde HIJOS a la Casa Rosada". Página/12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2020.
13. Rodríguez Niell, Paz (5 February 2014). "La Cámpora gana espacio en el Consejo de la Magistratura". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2020.
14. "De Pedro: "El objetivo es generar discusión dentro del partido y formar cuadros"". Télam (in Spanish). 9 May 2014.
15. "Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro, referente nacional de La Cámpora, será el nuevo secretario general de la Presidencia". Télam (in Spanish). 26 February 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
16. "Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro encabezará la lista de diputados nacionales del FpV en la provincia de Buenos Aires". La Nación. 20 June 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
17. "Consejo de la Magistratura: piden anular la designación de Wado de Pedro". Perfil (in Spanish). 20 November 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

External links

• Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish)
• Official website of La Cámpora