1. Leonardo Grosso was born on 1 April 1983 and is an Argentine politician.
11 Facts About Leonardo Grosso
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Leonardo Grosso was a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Buenos Aires Province for 12 years, from 2011 to 2023.
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Leonardo Grosso was born on 1 April 1983 in San Martin, a city in the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation.
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Leonardo Grosso started his political activism in the JP Evita, the Evita Movement's youth wing, in 2005.
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Leonardo Grosso is currently studying political science at the National University of General San Martin.
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Leonardo Grosso was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2011 in the Front for Victory list in Buenos Aires Province, in which he was the 20th candidate.
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Leonardo Grosso was elected and sat in the Front for Victory bloc, aligned with the government of then-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
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Leonardo Grosso was re-elected in 2015, this time placing 13th in the FPV list.
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Ahead of the 2019 general election, the Evita Movement joined the Frente de Todos to back the presidential candidacy of Alberto Fernandez; Leonardo Grosso was 3rd in the FDT deputies list in Buenos Aires Province and was easily re-elected.
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In 2019 Leonardo Grosso married his long-term partner, Guillermo Castro, becoming one of the few members of the Argentine National Congress to marry a same-sex partner under the 2010 same-sex marriage law, after Analuz Carol and Osvaldo Lopez.
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Leonardo Grosso is a vocal supporter of the legalization of abortion in Argentina, and voted in favor of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill during its treatment by the Chamber of Deputies in 2018 and 2020.