Mónica Xavier

{{Short description|Uruguayan politician}}

{{BLP one source|date=September 2021}}

{{family name hatnote|Xavier|Yelpo|lang=Spanish}}

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| name = Mónica Xavier

| image = Monicax01.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Mónica Xavier in 2006

| birth_name = Antonieta Mónica Xavier Yelpo

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|12|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Montevideo, Uruguay

| nationality = {{flag|URU}} Uruguayan

| occupation = politician, doctor

| parents =

|alma_mater = University of the Republic

| children =

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|party=Broad Front

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Antonieta Mónica Xavier Yelpo (Montevideo, 16 December 1956) is a Uruguayan politician and medical doctor with a postgraduate degree in cardiology.

She was the President of the leftist coalition Frente Amplio between 2012 and 2015 and is a serving in the Senate of Uruguay.{{cite web|title=Mónica Xavier|url=http://www.frenteamplio.org.uy/paginaoficial/m%C3%B3nica-xavier|publisher=Frente Amplio|accessdate=1 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418024205/http://www.frenteamplio.org.uy/paginaoficial/m%C3%B3nica-xavier|archivedate=18 April 2012}} Xavier was born into a family with socialist roots. She completed all her studies in public education. In 1975, she became a student in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of the Republic, and graduated in 1985.