Graciela Navarro

Graciela "Chaco" Navarro (born 26 December 1958) is an Argentine politician. She served as National Deputy elected in Santiago del Estero from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Civic Front for Santiago (FCpS), she has sat in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc from 2019 to 2023.

Early life and career Navarro was born on 26 December 1958 in Monte Quemado, a city in Northern Santiago del Estero Province. Her political career began in the Radical Civic Union (UCR): she served as a member of the party's Santiago del Estero Provincial Committee from 2011 to 2005, and as secretary of the committee from 1997 to 2011.

Navarro's first political post was as a member of the city council of Santiago del Estero, in 2001. She was re-elected for a second two-year term in 2003. In 2009, she was elected to the provincial Chamber of Deputies. As alternate candidate, Navarro took office in his stead.

In the 2015 election, Navarro ran for re-election as the third candidate in the Civic Front list. The FCpS received 65.67% of the vote, and Navarro was elected. She was re-elected for a third term in 2019 as the second candidate in the FCpS list, which received 56.66% of the vote.

During her 2019–2023 term, Navarro formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Culture, Budget and Finances, Economy, Population and Human Development, and Sports.

Personal life Navarro suffered from throat cancer and underwent surgery in 2017 after it metastasised to her brain. In 2018, during a visit to General Roca, Río Negro for a mass in honour of Ceferino Namuncurá, Navarro suffered a stroke and fell into a brief coma. In 2020, she contracted COVID-19, but recovered satisfactorily.

Navarro is Roman Catholic, and a devotee of Ceferino Namuncurá.