Carlos Iafigliola

Carlos Alberto Iafigliola Pimentel is a Uruguayan politician and activist who served as a member of the Montevideo Legislature from 2005 to 2015, and as a deputy National Representative from 2015 to 2020. A member of the National Party, he was a candidate in the 2024 presidential primaries for president of Uruguay in the 2024 general election.

Early life and education

Iafigliola was born into a working-class family on 1 February 1963, in the Buceo neighbourhood of Montevideo. He studied engineering at the University of the Republic and was part of the university union as a member of a Christian student association. He ultimately did not graduate, instead he obtained a degree in marketing from the Catholic University of Uruguay.

Political career

In 2003, he founded the Christian Social Current as a sector of the National Party.