Blanca Osuna | |
Image Name: | Blanca Osuna (cropped).jpg |
Office: | National Deputy |
Term Start: | 10 December 2019 |
Constituency: | Entre Ríos |
Term Start1: | 10 December 2001 |
Term End1: | 10 December 2007 |
Constituency1: | Entre Ríos |
Office2: | Mayor of Paraná |
Term Start2: | 10 December 2011 |
Term End2: | 10 December 2015 |
Predecessor2: | José Carlos Halle |
Successor2: | Sergio Varisco |
Office3: | National Senator |
Term Start3: | 10 December 2007 |
Term End3: | 10 December 2011 |
Constituency3: | Entre Ríos |
Party: | Justicialist Party |
Birth Date: | 25 October 1950 |
Birth Place: | Paraná, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina |
Profession: | Educational psychologist |
Website: | senadoraosuna.blogspot.com |
Blanca Inés Osuna (born 25 October 1950) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She has been a National Deputy for Entre Ríos Province since 2019, having held the position before from 2001 to 2007. She was also a National Senator representing the same province from 2007 to 2011, and served as intendente (mayor) of Paraná from 2011 to 2015.
Osuna qualified as an educational psychologist at the Catholic University of Argentina in 1984. She taught at the National University of Entre Ríos until 1986 and served on the provincial council of education between 1987 and 1991, latterly chairing the body. She worked as an educational psychologist in the province until 1995 when she became director general of schools for Entre Ríos until 1999.
Osuna was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 2001 and was re-elected in 2005. From 2006, she chaired the Education Committee of the Lower House.[1] She was elected to the Senate in 2007 and chairs the Education and Culture Committee of the Senate. In 2011 she was elected Mayor of Paraná, Entre Ríos.
Osuna was made Cavalieri dell’Ordine al Merito della Republica Italiana by the President of Italy in 2005.