Emilio Monzó (born 26 September 1965) is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as

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of the

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from 2015 to 2019. In 2015, he founded the Dialogue Party, which is affiliated with

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(PRO) and forms part of the

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coalition. He was born in Carlos Tejedor,

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and studied law at the

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. He began his political activism in the 1980s in the Union of the Democratic Center, later switching to the

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. In 2011 he joined

and worked at the successful

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presidential campaign of

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. He was ''

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'' (mayor) of his birthplace between 2003 and 2007 after serving in the City Council. He served as Minister of Rural Affairs in the provincial government of

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, and later became Mauricio Macri's Chief of Staff of in the

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government.

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