13 Facts About Norma Morandini

Norma Elena Morandini was born on 31 March 1948 and is an Argentine journalist and politician.

Norma Morandini was elected to the Argentine Senate in 2009, and was nominated as running mate by Progressive Front presidential candidate Hermes Binner for the 2011 campaign.

Norma Morandini's mother served as President of the Cordoba chapter of the Communist Party of Argentina during the 1960s.

Norma Morandini enrolled at the National University of Cordoba, and earned degrees in communications, psychology, and medicine.

Norma Morandini joined the Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina following its 1968 break from the Communist Party, and lost two brothers as desaparecidos in the subsequent Dirty War.

Norma Morandini sought exile in Spain, where she continued her career in journalism.

Norma Morandini worked in Lisbon from 1977 to 1980 as a news correspondent for the Pyresa news agency, for El Correo Catalan, and Revista Cambio 16, as well as for the Portuguese magazine Visao.

Norma Morandini met left-wing journalist and Brazilian exile Flavio de Freitas Tavares, and they were married in 1980.

Norma Morandini remained in Buenos Aires, and her first book Catamarca, was published in 1991.

Norma Morandini published El Haren in 1998, which examined the growing role of Arab Argentines in business and politics.

Norma Morandini later hosted Paradojas y Codigo N on Public Television.

Norma Morandini was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies on the Civic Front ticket in 2005, and in 2009, joined former Cordoba Mayor Luis Juez on a Civic Coalition ticket that resulted in the election of both to the Argentine Senate.

Norma Morandini was appointed ranking member of the Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Growth during her tenure in the Senate, and on 11 June 2011, Santa Fe Governor and Socialist presidential candidate Hermes Binner nominated Morandini as his running mate on their Broad Progressive Front ticket for the 2011 campaign.