Eduardo "Bali" Bucca (born 23 June 1979) is an

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physician and politician of the

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. He served as a National Deputy from 2017 to 2021, elected in

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, and as ''

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'' (mayor) of Bolívar, Buenos Aires from 2011 to 2017. Since 2021, he has been a member of the

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elected in the Seventh Electoral Section. At the 2019 provincial elections, Bucca ran for the

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of Buenos Aires in the

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ticket, winding up in third place with 5.11% of the vote.

Early and personal life

Bucca was born on 23 June 1979 in

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. He went to school at Colegio Cervantes and finished high school at the

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; he would later go on to attain a degree in medicine from Fundación Barceló, in 2002. Bucca is married and has three children. He is a close friend of TV presenter and businessman

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, a fellow native of San Carlos de Bolívar.

Political career

Bucca successfully ran for a seat in the San Carlos de Bolívar city council in 2009. In 2011, he was elected ''

'' (mayor) of the city with 48% of the votes, and in 2015 he was re-elected with 54% of the votes. At the 2019 provincial elections, Bucca ran for the

of Buenos Aires as part of

, a coalition of dissident

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who did not join the

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, as well as other smaller parties. Bucca ended up in third place with 5.11% of the vote.

National Deputy

Bucca ran for a seat in the

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at the 2017 legislative election as the first candidate in the Cumplir Justicialist Front list; the list received 5.20% of the vote, and Bucca was the only candidate in the list to be elected. From 2019 to 2021, Bucca was president of the

parliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies. In August 2021, Bucca left the bloc and officially joined the governing Frente de Todos. He did not run for a second term as deputy in

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, and his term expired on 9 December 2021.

Electoral history

Executive

Legislative

References

External links

Profile on the official website of the Chamber of Deputies
(in Spanish) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bucca, Eduardo Living people 1979 births Mayors of places in Argentina Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province Argentine deputies 2019–2021 Argentine deputies 2017–2019 Members of the Buenos Aires Province Senate Justicialist Party politicians