Carlos Iafigliola

Carlos Alberto Iafigliola Pimentel (born 1 February 1963) 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 (PN), he was a candidate in the 2024 presidential primaries for president of Uruguay in the 2024 general election.

[1] Iafigliola was born into a working-class family on 1 February 1963, in the Buceo neighbourhood of Montevideo.

[3] He ultimately did not graduate, instead he obtained a degree in marketing from the Catholic University of Uruguay.

[4] In 2003, he founded the Christian Social Current (List 252) as a sector of the National Party.