Carlos Alberto Iafigliola Pimentel (born 1 February 1963) is a Uruguayan politician and activist who served as a member of the Montevideo Legislature from 2005 to 2015, and as a deputy National Representative from 2015 to 2020. A member of the

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(PN), he was a candidate in the 2024 presidential primaries for

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in the

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Early life and education

Iafigliola was born into a working-class family on 1 February 1963, in the

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neighbourhood of

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. He studied engineering at the

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and was part of the university union as a member of a Christian student association. He ultimately did not graduate, instead he obtained a degree in marketing from the

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Political career

In 2003, he founded the Christian Social Current (List 252) as a sector of the National Party.

References

Living people 1963 births Catholic University of Uruguay alumni Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay (2015–2020) National Party (Uruguay) politicians People from Montevideo Department Uruguayan anti-abortion activists Uruguayan Roman Catholics {{Uruguay-activist-stub