Bertha Elba Sanseverino Mansilla (April 25, 1946 – June 18, 2018) was a Uruguayan politician and member of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) since 1971 and the Liber Seregni Front faction of the Uruguay Assembly, a social democratic political party.

[1] In 1977, Bertha Sanseverino fled into exile in France with her daughter following the arrest of her husband by the military regime.

[1] In 2005, Uruguay President Tabaré Vázquez, the first Broad Front politician to achieve the presidency, appointed Sanseverino as head of the Plan de Atención Nacional a la Emergencia Social (PANES), an agency within the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES).

Sanseverino remained at the Ministry of Social Development until February 2010, when she was sworn in as an elected member of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay.

[1][3] Sanseverino, a sitting member of the Chamber of Representatives, died in Montevideo on June 18, 2018, at the age of 72.