He is 28 years old, is from slaughterhouses, Chicago Fan and Vice President of Young Pro. But in recent days, Rocío “Rochi” Figueroa He won notoriety not only for his irruption in the list of candidates for Buenos Aires legislators, but also for his resemblance to Julia Robertsa detail that viralized his image and attracted comments from Migue Granados to libertarian militants. She recognizes him with humor: “It is an honor that compare me with such a woman like Julia Roberts”.
The story of his candidacy suddenly began: while he was attended by a seminar at the Pension Foundation, he received the call of his political reference, Cristian Ritondo. In his office, in front of Congress, he gave her the news: they had chosen her to take the fifth place in the list they head Silvia Lospenno and Hernán Lombardi. “I want leaders, not soldiers,” Ritondo told him. “I am the youngest candidate”, Highlights Rochi, and assumes it as a responsibility.
Since then, he became the young A commitment of the PRO. It was politically adopted by María Eugenia Vidalwho not only the advisor on issues such as housing – herself is a tenant in her native neighborhood – but also in how to move in campaign. “I dream of my own house, I say it as a tenant. It costs us a lot to dream of our own house ”recognize. In that frame, he says: “We want to launch a mortgage loan” For young people like her.
Bachelor of Government and International Relations (UADE)Figueroa has a social forged profile. His thesis was about political pointers And his first work in politics consisted of distributing food and toys in villas of the conurbano and the city. Before It was a girl, nanny and English teacher. Today, in addition to military for almost a decade, it occupies a key role in the youth of the PRO. “Politics is delivery”define.
Rochi does not dodge the controversies. In networks He responded hard to criticism of Leandro Santoro and Paula Olivetoand went out to the crossing of false tweets that tried to link it to Mauricio Macri. “In 2015 I voted for him, it was what motivated me military,” he says. “The pro changed my neighborhood, I convinced myself with the transformation of my area”, Explains about his landing in politics from slaughterhouses, his place in the world. For her, “All the residents of the city know that the PRO and the city are the faces of the same currency”.
During their tours of the Buenos Aires neighborhoods, there is no lack of gestures of sympathy and even a soundtrack chosen on purpose: Sounds in the background Pretty Womanthe Roy Orbison classic which musicalized the film that consecrated Julia Roberts. The identification, far from disturbing her, became part of her political character.
He also fully got into the debate for public ethics. He defended the project with emphasis Clean file: “Nine years ago Silvia (Lospennato) pushes this project, how will it not have a anger?”he said after the parliamentary fall of the initiative. And it went further: “They ask you for a criminal record to enter any company, aren’t they going to ask you to govern?”.
In campaign, he says they maintain an ethical commitment: “We signed, at the beginning, an ‘Clean Campaign'” agreement. And when talking about his list partner, he spares no praise: “Silvia has more strength than ever”.
Between his Hollywood imageits neighborhood militancy speech and a direct message, “La Julia Roberts del Pro” seeks to settle as a fresh, frontal and territory voice, in a space that needs to renew figures without losing identity. “My feeling is that there is a vote of confidence in people”he states. And if politics is also narrative, Rochi has already found his.
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