Miguel Ángel Bazze (born 30 April 1955) is an Argentine politician, who served as National Deputy representing Buenos Aires Province from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Radical Civic Union, Bazze sat in the Juntos por el Cambio inter-bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.
Bazze previously served as a member of the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies, as a city councillor in La Plata, and as president of the Buenos Aires Province Committee of the Radical Civic Union.
Early life and career Bazze was born on 30 April 1955 in General Roca, in Río Negro Province. When he was 17 years old, he moved to La Plata to study engineering at the National University of La Plata, and it was there he began his political activism in the student wing of the Radical Civic Union, Franja Morada. He would later drop out of university to dedicate himself to politics full time.
Bazze is married and has five sons.
Political career From 1985 to 1989, Bazze was a member of the La Plata City Council. Then, from 1989 to 1993, he was a member of the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies elected in the Capital Electoral Section (corresponding to the La Plata Partido). In 2010, he was elected president of the Provincial Committee of the Radical Civic Union, a position he held until 2012 when he was succeeded by Alejandro Armendáriz.
In 2011, Bazze ran for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as the first candidate in the Union for Social Development (UDESO) list; the list received 11.54% of the vote and Bazze was elected. He was re-elected in 2015 and in 2019, both times as the third candidate in the Cambiemos and Juntos por el Cambio lists.
Electoral history + Election Office List District Votes Result . Total % . 1985 Councillor Radical Civic Union 1 La Plata Partido 125,123 45.31% 1st 1989 Provincial Deputy Radical Civic Union 2 Capital Electoral Section 107,554 35.57% 2nd 2011 National Deputy 1 Buenos Aires Province 928,027 11.54% 3rd 2015 Cambiemos 3 Buenos Aires Province 3,037,552 33.75% 2nd 2019 Juntos por el Cambio 3 Buenos Aires Province 3,668,580 37.77% 2nd
References
External links
Profile on the official website of the Chamber of Deputies (in Spanish)