11 Facts About Josefina Mendoza

Josefina Mendoza was born on 16 May 1992 and is an Argentine politician who was a National Deputy from 2017 to 2021, elected in Buenos Aires Province.

Josefina Mendoza is a member of the Radical Civic Union.

Josefina Mendoza was born on 16 May 1992 in Daireaux, a small town in South-western Buenos Aires Province.

Josefina Mendoza finished high school at Escuela Agrotecnica Salesiana "Carlos Casares", and then went on to study International Relations at the National University of Central Buenos Aires, in Tandil.

Josefina Mendoza became active in student politics as part of Franja Morada, the student wing of the Radical Civic Union.

Josefina Mendoza was a member of the UNICEN student council from 2012 to 2014, and was a candidate to president of the student union in 2013.

In 2014, Josefina Mendoza was elected vice-president of the Argentine University Federation.

In 2017, Josefina Mendoza rose to prominence due to her spat with union leader Roberto Baradel over a teachers' strike organized by Baradel's union, SUTEBA.

Josefina Mendoza ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 2017 legislative election, as the tenth candidate in the Cambiemos list in Buenos Aires Province.

Josefina Mendoza was a vocal supporter of the legalization of abortion in Argentina, voting in favour of the two Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills that were debated by the Argentine Congress in 2018 and 2020.

Ahead of the 2021 primary election, Josefina Mendoza was confirmed as one of the candidates in the "Dar el Paso" list in Buenos Aires Province.