She was elected to the Argentine Senate in 2009, and was nominated as running mate by Progressive Front presidential candidate Hermes Binner for the 2011 campaign Morandini was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1948.

[3] She met left-wing journalist and Brazilian exile Flávio de Freitas Tavares, and they were married in 1980.

She published El Harén (The Harem) in 1998, which examined the growing role of Arab Argentines in business and politics.

Her work as host of Tierra de Periodistas (Land of Journalists) earned her a second Martín Fierro in 2000, and in 2001, she produced the documentary Operación Aries (in reference to the military code name of the March 1976 coup) for the 25th anniversary of the event.

[3] She was appointed ranking member of the Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Growth during her tenure in the Senate, and on 11 June 2011, Santa Fe Governor and Socialist presidential candidate Hermes Binner nominated Morandini as his running mate on their Broad Progressive Front ticket for the 2011 campaign.