Patricia Bullrich

Patricia Bullrich (born 11 June 1956) is an Argentine politician. She was Minister of Security under President Mauricio Macri and is the chairwoman of Republican Proposal.[1]

Patricia Bullrich
Minister of Security
In office 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019
President	Mauricio Macri
Preceded by	María Cecilia Rodríguez
Succeeded by	Sabina Frederic
Minister of Social Security
In office 31 October 2001 – 15 November 2001
President	Fernando de la Rúa
Succeeded by	José Gabriel Dumón
Minister of Labour, Employment and Human Resources
In office 6 October 2000 – 29 October 2001
President	Fernando de la Rúa
Preceded by	Alberto Flamarique
Succeeded by	José Gabriel Dumón
National Deputy
In office December 10, 1993 – December 10, 1997
Constituency	City of Buenos Aires
In office December 10, 2007 – December 10, 2015
Constituency	City of Buenos Aires
Personal details
Born	11 June 1956 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political party	Justicialist Party (1983–1996) New Leadership (1996–1999) Union for Freedom (2002–2018) Republican Proposal (2018–present)
Other political affiliations	Alliance for Work, Justice and Education (1999–2001) Civic Coalition (2007–2011) PRO Union (2013–2015) Juntos por el Cambio (2015–present)
Alma mater	University of Palermo
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Born in Buenos Aires, Bullrich graduated from the University of Palermo and as a young woman was involved with the Peronist Youth, very close to the Montoneros, terrorist arm of Peronism, getting the rank of second lieutenant in the late organization, closely related to Rodolfo Galimberti and Roberto Perdia, high-ranking leaders of Montoneros, and using the war nickname La Piba.

Political career

After the return of democracy, she became Organisation Secretary of the Justicialist Party of Buenos Aires and was elected as a Peronist deputy in 1993.[2] In 1995 she was named the Legislator of the year.

Disillusioned with the Peronist cause, Bullrich left Congress in 1997 and set up the UPT, originally as a vehicle for studying and campaigning on the subject of crime and security.[3] From 1996 to 1999, she was a member of Gustavo Béliz's New Leadership party.[4] She worked for the state government in Buenos Aires Province on security matters, developing a community policing project in Hurlingham which became well-known nationally and internationally.[2]

Bullrich with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Argentina and the United Kingdom, in 2018.

In 1999, the UPT became part of the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education which took Fernando de la Rúa to the Presidency and Bullrich was appointed to office in the Department of Criminal Policy and Penitentiary Matters. In 2001, she was made a cabinet minister, as Secretary of Labour, Employment and Human Resources, and later that year as Secretary of Social Security.[2] During the 2001 economic crisis, she led the plan to substantially reduce the pay of state employees and the level of state pensions.

Following the collapse of the Alliance government of De la Rúa, Bullrich and her colleagues formally launched UPT as a political party, on 6 March 2002.[3] The following year, the Party participated in the elections for Buenos Aires City, with Bullrich as the candidate for Head of Government for the Alianza Unión para Recrear Buenos Aires, working with the Recrear movement of Ricardo López Murphy. They came fourth with almost 10% of the vote.

In 2007, Bullrich led UPT into the Civic Coalition (Argentina) (2007-2011) alongside various opposition groups and social movements, principally ARI led by Elisa Carrió. The Coalition won several seats in the upper and lower houses of Congress and Bullrich herself was elected as National Deputy for Buenos Aires. Her centrist politics and polemical history as a government minister, however, contributed to the disenchantment of a group of left-wing members of ARI who left the Civic Coalition.

Following the election of Mauricio Macri to the presidency on 22 November 2015, it was announced on 25 November 2015 that Bullrich had been nominated the Minister of Security of the Nation.[5]

References

1. "Patricia Bullrich es formalmente la presidenta del Pro". Cba24n (in Spanish).
2. CV, Argentine Chamber of Deputies. Accessed 11 April 2009.
3. Nuestra historia, Unión por Todos. Accessed 11 April 2009.
4. "9 January 2002". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 December 2020.
5. "Marcos Peña anunció los ministros que integrarán el Gabinete de Macri". Telam. Télam SE Agencia Nacional de Noticias. Retrieved 26 November 2015.