Eduardo Bucca

Eduardo "Bali" Bucca (born 23 June 1979) is an Argentine physician and politician of the Justicialist Party. He served as a National Deputy from 2017 to 2021, elected in Buenos Aires Province, and as intendente (mayor) of Bolívar, Buenos Aires from 2011 to 2017. Since 2021, he has been a member of the Buenos Aires Province Senate elected in the Seventh Electoral Section.

Eduardo Bucca
Provincial Senator of Buenos Aires
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 December 2021
Constituency	Seventh Electoral Section
National Deputy
In office 10 December 2017 – 10 December 2021
Constituency	Buenos Aires
Mayor of Bolívar
In office 10 December 2011 – 10 December 2017
Preceded by	José Gabriel Erreca
Succeeded by	Marcos Pisano
Personal details
Born	(1979-06-23) 23 June 1979 (age 45) San Carlos de Bolívar, Argentina
Political party	Justicialist Party
Other political affiliations	Front for Victory (2011–2017) Cumplir Justicialist Front (2017) Federal Consensus (2019–2021) Frente de Todos (2021–present)
Profession	Physician, politician

At the 2019 provincial elections, Bucca ran for the governorship of Buenos Aires in the Federal Consensus ticket, winding up in third place with 5.11% of the vote.

Early and personal life

Bucca was born on 23 June 1979 in San Carlos de Bolívar, Buenos Aires Province. He went to school at Colegio Cervantes and finished high school at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires; he would later go on to attain a degree in medicine from Fundación Barceló, in 2002.^[1]

Bucca is married and has three children. He is a close friend of TV presenter and businessman Marcelo Tinelli, a fellow native of San Carlos de Bolívar.^[2]

Political career

Bucca successfully ran for a seat in the San Carlos de Bolívar city council in 2009. In 2011, he was elected intendente (mayor) of the city with 48% of the votes, and in 2015 he was re-elected with 54% of the votes.^[1]

At the 2019 provincial elections, Bucca ran for the governorship of Buenos Aires as part of Federal Consensus, a coalition of dissident Peronists who did not join the Frente de Todos, as well as other smaller parties.^[3] Bucca ended up in third place with 5.11% of the vote.^[4]

National Deputy

Bucca ran for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies at the 2017 legislative election as the first candidate in the Cumplir Justicialist Front list;^[2] the list received 5.20% of the vote, and Bucca was the only candidate in the list to be elected.

From 2019 to 2021, Bucca was president of the Federal Consensus parliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.^[5] In August 2021, Bucca left the bloc and officially joined the governing Frente de Todos.^[6]

He did not run for a second term as deputy in 2021, and his term expired on 9 December 2021.

Electoral history

Executive

Electoral history of Eduardo Bucca

Election	Office	List		Votes			Result	Ref.
				Total	%	P.
2011	Mayor of Bolívar		Front for Victory	10,784	47.98%	1st	Elected	[7]
2015			Front for Victory	12,453	54.60%	1st	Elected	[8]
2019	Governor of Buenos Aires		Federal Commitment	513,850	5.11%	3rd	Not elected	[9]

Legislative

Electoral history of Eduardo Bucca

Election	Office	List		#	District	Votes			Result	Ref.
						Total	%	P.
2017	National Deputy		Cumplir Justicialist Front [es]	1	Buenos Aires Province	485,138	5.20%	5th[a]	Elected	[10]
2021	Provincial Senator		Frente de Todos	1	Seventh Electoral Section	62,559	33.73%	2nd[a]	Elected	[11]

1. Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.