Alberto Asseff
{{Short description|Argentine politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Alberto Asseff.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|10|31|df=yes}}
| office = National Deputy
| termstart = 10 December 2019
| termstart2 = 10 December 2011
| termend2 = 10 December 2015
| constituency = Buenos Aires
| constituency2 = Buenos Aires
| office3 = Deputy of the Mercosur Parliament
representing Argentina
| termstart3 = 2015
| termend3 = 2019
| party = UNIR Constitutional Nationalist Party
| otherparty = Juntos por el Cambio
}}
Alberto Emilio Asseff (born 31 October 1942) is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served a National Deputy between 2011 and 2015, reassuming office in 2019.
Early life and education
Asseff graduated at Law at the University of Buenos Aires in 1968, where he started to be politically active in the centrist Civic Radical Union (UCR). After his graduation, he worked as an advisor in some administrations of UCR's politicians like Ricardo Balbín and Arturo Illia. In 1982 he created the Constitutional Nationalist Party, with former members of UCR. In this party was where Alberto Fernández, president of Argentina, made his first steps in politics. Fernandez left the NCP when Asseff started to be identified with some conservative Argentine politicians.{{cite news |title=Asseff y Fernández, ligados por aquel pasado nacionalista |agency=La Nación |url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/asseff-y-fernandez-ligados-por-aquel-pasado-nacionalista-nid2272099 |accessdate=15 March 2020}}{{cite news |date=25 May 2019 |title=Alberto, the supremely pragmatic Peronist |agency=Buenos Aires Times |url=https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/alberto-the-supremely-pragmatic-peronist.phtml |accessdate=15 March 2020}}
Political career
Asseff served as a National Deputy between 2011 and 2015, representing Buenos Aires province by the alliance between his party UNIR Constitutional Nationalist Party and Compromiso Federal, created by former president Alberto Rodríguez Saá. He was re-elected as a deputy in 2019, but on this occasion for Juntos por el Cambio, in charge since then. Asseff also served as member of Mercosur Parliament from his election in 2015 until 2019 as part of Unidos por una Nueva Alternativa.{{cite web |title=Profile in Parliament of Mercosur |url=https://www.parlamentomercosur.org/innovaportal/v/7929/1/parlasur/asseff-alberto-emilio.html |accessdate=15 March 2020}}
For the 2019 Argentine general election, Asseff initially endorsed José Luis Espert for president, but later changed his position and supported Mauricio Macri of Juntos por el Cambio, which was criticized by Espert. He is a cousin of José Asseff, who was president of the Lebanese Club of Buenos Aires.{{cite news |title=Un parásito: Alberto Asseff, el diputado de Massa, y su partido pyme familia |url=https://www.treslineas.com.ar/parasito-alberto-asseff-diputado-massa-partido-pyme-familiar-n-1400513.html |access-date=12 December 2021 |publisher=Tres Líneas |date=15 Jun 2016}}
= International politics =
Internationally, Asseff signed the Madrid Charter of the far-right Spanish political party Vox, joining the alliance of right-wing and far-right politicians.{{Cite web |title=Carta de Madrid |url=https://fundaciondisenso.org/carta-de-madrid/ |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=Fundación Disenso |date=26 October 2020 |language=es}}
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Category:20th-century Argentine lawyers
Category:University of Buenos Aires alumni
Category:Argentine people of Lebanese descent
Category:Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province
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Category:Argentine deputies 2019–2021