Fernando Iglesias (Argentine politician) Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In 2017, a lawyer close to then-president Mauricio Macri invited Iglesias to join Macri’s Cambiemos coalition. Macri highly appreciated Iglesias’ passionate speeches in television debates and encouraged him to run for the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Argentine Congress. Later that year, Iglesias ran for National Deputy under the PRO ticket and won with over 50% of the votes. He then joined the Commission of Provision and Social Security (Spanish: Comisión de Previsión y Seguridad Social).

From October 2007 to December 2011, Iglesias served as a National Deputy for the centrist Civic Coalition ARI party. A critic of Argentina’s media laws, Iglesias joined the Freedom of Expression Committee. He argued that previous reforms made to the media laws were far from sufficient and that the parliamentary debate was excessively short. In 2011, he pushed for a bill that would lead to the nationwide implementation of single ballot voting, which proponents say would prevent ballot theft. He sponsored several bills that would see the creation a national registry of missing individuals, a plan to democratize the trade unions, a plan to oversee social work, and modifications to the civil code on issues like gender-motivated violence and religious liberty.

He attended the School of Competitive Sports (Spanish: Licenciado en Alto Rendimiento Deportivo) at the National University of Lomas de Zamora, where he trained to become a volleyball player. He moved to Italy post-graduation to play volleyball and resided there for several years. Iglesias returned to Argentina in the mid-1990s and started to work as a truck driver and teach languages and tango. In the meantime, he studied Journalism at the Taller Escuela Agencia [es], where he became interested in globalization. He had written as a columnist for various Argentine newspapers including La Nación, Clarín, and the magazine Noticias. He had also served as a freelance Buenos Aires correspondent for several European media outlets.

In 1970, Fernando Iglesias joined the Trotskyist Socialist Party of the Workers (Spanish: Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores, abbrev. PST) [es], where he saw Juan Carlos Coral [es] and Nora Ciapponi run for president in the 1973 elections. He would later leave the PST and join the Front of Workers for Human Rights (Spanish: Frente de Trabajadores por los Derechos Humanos) to devote himself to human rights advocacy.

Fernando Adolfo Iglesias (born 14 May 1957 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine journalist, writer, politician, and volleyball player. Currently he is a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires. He is a member of the center right party Republican Proposal.