Alberto Emilio Asseff (born 31 October 1942) is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served a National Deputy between 2011 and 2015, reassuming office in 2019.

Early life and education

Asseff graduated at Law at the

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in 1968, where he started to be politically active in the

centrist Centrism is a political outlook or position involving acceptance or support of a balance of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy while opposing political changes that would result in a significant shift of society strongly to th ...

Civic Radical Union (UCR). After his graduation, he worked as an advisor in some administrations of UCR's politicians like

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and

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. In 1982 he created the

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, with former members of UCR. In this party was where

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, president of Argentina, made his first steps in politics. Fernandez left the NCP when Asseff started to be identified with some conservative Argentine politicians.

Political career

Asseff served as a National Deputy between 2011 and 2015, representing Buenos Aires province by the alliance between his party

UNIR Constitutional Nationalist Party The Constitutional Nationalist Party – Union for Integration and Resurgence ( es, Partido Nacionalista Constitucional – Unión para la Integración y el Resurgimiento, PNC–UNIR), often known by the shortened name UNIR Constitutional Nationa ...

and

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, created by former president

Alberto Rodríguez Saá Alberto José Rodriguez Saá (born August 21, 1949) is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He is the Governor of San Luis Province. He was presidential candidate for the center-right peronism, Federal Peronism, in 2007 and 2011. The Rodriguez S ...

. He was re-elected as a deputy in 2019, but on this occasion for

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, in charge since then. Asseff also served as member of

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from his election in 2015 until 2019 as part of

Unidos por una Nueva Alternativa United for a New Alternative ( es, Unidos por una Nueva Alternativa, UNA) was an Argentine Peronist political coalition, running for the 2015 Argentine general election General elections were held in Argentina on 25 October 2015 to elect the ...

. For the

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, Asseff initially endorsed José Luis Espert for president, but later changed his position and supported

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, which was criticized by Espert. He is a cousin of José Asseff, who was president of the

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International politics

Internationally, Asseff signed the

Madrid Charter The ''Madrid Charter: In Defense of Freedom and Democracy in the Iberosphere'' ( Spanish: ''Carta de Madrid: en defensa de la libertad y la democracia en la Iberosfera''), also known as the ''Letter from Madrid'', was a manifesto created on 26 O ...

of the

far-right Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of bein ...

Spanish political party Vox, joining the alliance of right-wing and far-right politicians.

References

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