Jorge Walter Correa (born 30 October 1965) is an Argentine trade unionist and politician who was a National Deputy from 2017 to 2021, elected in Buenos Aires Province. Correa is the Secretary General of the Sindicato de Obreros Curtidores (SOCRA), Argentina's leather workers' union. A member of the Justicialist Party, he was elected as part of the Unidad Ciudadana list in 2017, and later sat in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.
Walter Correa | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Labour of Buenos Aires Province | |
| Assumed office 22 August 2022 | |
| Governor | Axel Kicillof |
| Preceded by | Mara Ruiz Malec |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2017 – 10 December 2021 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 October 1965 Moreno, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political affiliations | Front for Victory (2013–2017) Unidad Ciudadana (2017–2019) Frente de Todos (2019–present) |
From 2013 to 2017, Correa was a member of the City Council of Moreno. Since 2022, he has served as Minister of Labour of Buenos Aires Province under Governor Axel Kicillof.
Early life and education
editCorrea was born on 30 October 1965 in Moreno, a city in the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation. He has a high school accountancy degree. He is married.[1]
Career
editCorrea was elected to the position of Secretary General of SOCRA in 2012, and was re-elected in 2016.[2][3] Prior to that, he was Secretary General of the Greater Buenos Aires chapter of SOCRA.[4]
In 2013, Correa was elected to the Moreno City Council on the Front for Victory list.[5] Correa ran for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in the 2017 legislative election; he was the 10th candidate in the Unidad Ciudadana list in Buenos Aires Province.[6][7] The Unidad Ciudadana list received 36.28% of the votes, and Correa was elected. He was sworn in on 6 December 2017.[8]
As deputy, Correa formed part of the parliamentary commissions on National Defense, Small and Medium-sized Businesses, Cooperative Affairs, Industry and Labour Legislation.[9] Correa was a supporter of the legalization of abortion in Argentina. He voted in favour of the two Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills that were debated by the Argentine Congress in 2018 and 2020.[10][11] He has also introduced legislation to reform the pensions system for leather workers, and to regulate remote workers.[1]
Ahead of the 2021 primary election, Correa was confirmed as one of the candidates for re-election in the Frente de Todos list in Buenos Aires Province.[12] The list did not receive enough votes for Correa to make it past the D'Hondt cut, and so he was not re-elected. His term expired on 9 December 2021.
Electoral history
edit| Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % | P. | ||||||||
| 2017 | National Deputy | Unidad Ciudadana | 10 | Buenos Aires Province | 3,383,114 | 36.28% | 2nd[a] | Elected | [13] | |
| 2021 | Frente de Todos | 18 | Buenos Aires Province | 3,444,446 | 38.59% | 2nd[a] | Not elected | [14] | ||
- ^ a b Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.
References
edit- ^ a b "Walter Correa". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Resolución Nº 1797/2013". infoleg.gob.ar (in Spanish). 27 November 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Autoridades". SOCRA (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 July 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Trabajadores toman la curtiembre Wyny en Avellaneda". La Política Online (in Spanish). 5 February 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Walter Correa: "Yo apelo a la conciencia colectiva para que el año que viene podamos volver a tener un gobierno nacional y popular"". Primereando (in Spanish). 6 May 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Elecciones 2017: famosos, periodistas y otras sorpresas del cierre de listas". La Nación (in Spanish). 24 June 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ^ "La sorpresiva lista de diputados nacionales de Unidad Ciudadana: quiénes son los candidatos de Cristina". La Nación (in Spanish). 24 June 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ^ "Video. Walter Correa juró por Perón, Evita, Néstor y Cristina Kirchner y los 30 mil desaparecidos". SOCRA (in Spanish). 6 December 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Walter Correa | Comisiones". HCDN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Entre los diputados de origen sindical se impone la legalización del aborto". Tiempo Argentino (in Spanish). 11 June 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Aborto legal: uno por uno, así fue el voto de cada diputado". La Voz (in Spanish). 11 December 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Los gremialistas ocuparán lugares clave en la lista de diputados del FdT bonaerense". Télam (in Spanish). 25 July 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Elecciones 2017". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ "Elecciones 2021". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
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