Gabriela Cerruti

Gabriela Carla Cerruti (born 9 December 1965) is an Argentine journalist, writer, and politician. She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2017 to 2021, as part of the Front for Victory bloc, and later as part of the Frente de Todos bloc. She served as the official spokesperson for Alberto Fernández, President of Argentina.

In 2007, she was elected to the Buenos Aires City Legislature, and subsequently re-elected for the 2011–2015 term. She was part of the New Encounter bloc, a party for which she was one of the main leaders in her district.

Early life and education Gabriela Cerruti began her university studies in journalism at the National University of La Plata's School of Journalism and Social Communication in 1983. She pursued graduate studies at the Center for Communication and Information Studies of the University of Westminster in London, where she graduated with a Master of Arts with the thesis The War Against the Public Sphere.

She completed a PhD at the University of Westminster, with a thesis on the destruction of the public sphere during the self-proclaimed National Reorganization Process that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983

Career in journalism Beginning in 1983, she alternated her studies and her teaching activity with the professional, making various contributions, first for different media in La Plata and Buenos Aires and then, in 1985, as editor at the national news agency Noticias Argentinas. In 1987, she became a reporter at the weekly Somos, El Periodista, and Página/12. and was elected to serve from December 2007 to December 2011. During the first two years, she was a member of the Commissions of Economic Development, Mercosur, and Employment Policies; Woman, Childhood, Adolescence and Youth; and Public Works and Services. Until the end of 2010, she was also on the Committee for Budget, Finance, Financial Administration, and Tax Policy. During 2010 and 2011, she was on the Commission on Constitutional Affairs and the Special Commission on Public Policies for Full Citizenship.

In March 2010, making use of her perspective, experience, and public commitment as an official and journalist, she turned over the result of an investigation carried out during more than two years of legislative work in her book El pibe. Negocios, intrigas y secretos de Mauricio Macri, el hombre que quiere ser Presidente, also for Editorial Planeta.

In 2009, she joined the New Encounter parliamentary bloc. In July 2011, she renewed her mandate as deputy, heading the list of the Nuevo Encuentro Front in its first electoral participation in the city as a political party after having achieved legal status in the district.

National Deputy Cerruti during the 2018 debate on the legalization of abortion in the Chamber of Deputies. In the 2017 legislative elections in the City of Buenos Aires, she participated as the second precandidate of Unidad Ciudadana in the primary with Itai Hagman (AHORA Buenos Aires) and Guillermo Moreno (Honesty and Courage). After Citizen's Unity's victory in the primary, she was presented as a second candidate for national deputy by the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, being elected along with Daniel Filmus and Juan Cabandié, consecrating Unidad Porteña as the top opposition party in percentage of votes (21.74%).

In 2018, Cerruti spoke up in parliament in support of the legalisation of abortion. She shared her own experiences of having an abortion in a country where the procedure is illegal.

Presidential spokesperson In October 2021, the Casa Rosada announced Cerruti would be standing down from her seat in the Chamber of Deputies in order to be appointed the official spokesperson for the Presidency of Argentina. Her position at the head of the Communications Unit of the Presidency was officialised on 15 October 2021.

Personal life Gabriela Cerruti is the daughter of Rosa Riasol and Ruggero Cerruti, and the third of six sisters: Sandra, Fabiana, Gabriela, Viviana, Carina, and Andrea. From 1997 to 2007, she was married to the journalist Lucas Guagnini, with whom she had two children.

Works 1991: El octavo círculo, crónica de la Argentina menemista (together with Sergio Ciancaglini) 1996: El jefe (about former President Carlos Menem) 1997: Herederos del silencio (about the dictatorship) 2010: El pibe (about the then Head of Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri) 2014: Vivir bien en la ciudad (proposals for better living in the city) 2020: La Revolución de las Viejas