Yasky is also vice president of New Encounter, a kirchnerist political party affiliated to the Frente de Todos.

Hugo Yasky was born in 1949 in Ramos Mejía, a city in the Greater Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.

Back then, he opposed the policies of president Carlos Menem, and took part in a hunger strike at the Carpa blanca.

[1] There were new elections in 2011, and he was initially defeated by Pablo Micheli, who opposed the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, supported by Yasky.

Micheli considered that the presidency would have interfered in the elections via loyalist judges, and Yasky that the judiciary confirmed their suspicions about electoral fraud.