1. Bertha Elba Sanseverino Mansilla was a Uruguayan politician and member of the Broad Front since 1971 and the Liber Seregni Front faction of the Uruguay Assembly, a social democratic political party.
10 Facts About Bertha Sanseverino
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Bertha Sanseverino was born in Colonia del Sacramento on April 25,1946.
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Bertha Sanseverino became the leader of the Law Student Center in 1968 and a member of the Federation of Uruguayan University Students beginning in 1970.
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Bertha Sanseverino had been a member of the Broad Front since its establishment in 1971.
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In 1977, Bertha Sanseverino fled into exile in France with her daughter following the arrest of her husband by the military regime.
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Bertha Sanseverino returned from exile following the restoration of democracy in the mid-1980s.
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Bertha Sanseverino was elected to the Departmental Board of Montevideo Department in 1994 and won re-election to the Board in 1999.
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Bertha Sanseverino was later appointed National Director of Critical Assistance and Social Inclusion.
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Bertha Sanseverino remained at the Ministry of Social Development until February 2010, when she was sworn in as an elected member of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay.
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Bertha Sanseverino, a sitting member of the Chamber of Representatives, died in Montevideo on June 18,2018, at the age of 72.