Mónica Bottero Tovagliare (born 1964) is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and politician from the Independent Party (PI).

Career

Bottero has been a journalist since 1982, when she joined the editorial office of '' El Día''. She was part of the founding staff of the weekly newspaper '' Brecha'', and worked as a parliamentary chronicler and editor of special reports on national politics, as well as a correspondent in Central America. As a journalist for the politics section of ''El Día'', she covered the events of the democratic transition in 1985. Years later she moved to Cuba to take a UNESCO course. In 1988, when she returned to Uruguay, she began working at '' Búsqueda'', until 2017. From 2010 to 2017 she served as Editor-in-Chief of magazine Gallery of the weekly '' Búsqueda''. From 2017 to 2018, she was a panelist on the debate program '' Todos las Voces'' aired on

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. She has served as a reporter for the Cuban agency ''

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Political career

At the beginning of 2019, Bottero joined the Independent Party as head of the communication division. She was officially presented by the party leader, Pablo Mieres, on February 26 in the annex of the Legislative Palace. In June, facing the

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, she begins as a political leader with an accusatory speech against political outsiders. On July 13, Mieres announced Bottero as his running mate. She declared that she knew and did not want to deny that her place in the formula was due to her gender, stating "I do not want to deny it, much less be ashamed of being a product of the

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". In the

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, the Mieres-Bottero formula obtained 0.97 percent of the vote. For the second round of the election, the Independent Party supported the Luis Lacalle Pou-Beatriz Argimón formula as part of the ''

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''. After Lacalle Pou's victory, she was appointed director of the National Institute for Women of the Ministry of Social Development.

Works

* 1988: ''Mujeres (veintiséis retratos de uruguayas)'' * 1992: ''Montevideo de puño y letra'' (Fin de siglo, collaborator) * 1997: ''Mujeres uruguayas I'' (colaboradora, ) * 2001: ''Mujeres uruguayas II'' (colaboradora) * 2000: ''Grandes entrevistas uruguayas'' (collaborator, compiled by

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) * 2005: ''Diosas y brujas'' (Fin de Siglo) * 2006: ''Pongámoslo así'' (Fin de Siglo) * 2009: ''Madres al límite, cinco historias reales de maternidad uruguaya''

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bottero, Mónica 21st-century Uruguayan writers 21st-century Uruguayan women politicians 21st-century Uruguayan politicians Uruguayan politicians Uruguayan journalists Uruguayan women journalists Uruguayan vice-presidential candidates Uruguayan women activists Uruguayan women's rights activists Uruguayan civil servants Uruguayan women civil servants 1964 births Living people Uruguayan people of Italian descent