Sebastián “Tati” Giménez, candidate for deputy for the Patria Querida (PQ) party, is 25 years old and is a law student. He affirms that he has been following a path to generate transformations. He highlights that the PQ provides spaces for young people. “We have the best team in Asunción. It is time for a team of new faces to join in with better guarantees and better dignity”, he expressed during the presentation of his candidacy on August 16. He then answers some queries.
Who is Sebastian “Tati” Gimenez?
I am 25 years old, I am a law student with an emphasis on public law, I am finishing my degree right now, I am in the last semester, I am also a volunteer firefighter, I am from Asuncion, I have lived all my life in Asunción. Today I am the youngest candidate in Asunción and in all departments, at least on the list I saw. So the idea is to propose a young candidacy that seeks to renew and refresh the face that we have in Congress, hand in hand with various proposals that we have worked on and that we are going to continue working on. So in some way I have been working with the youth of Patria Querida (PPQ), for many years. Patria Querida as a party is strongly committed to having young candidates among those, my candidacy is born and comes out.
What do you aspire to? What are your dreams?
It is not a testimonial candidacy, or positioning. You saw that many times suddenly, it doesn’t seem wrong to me either, there are people who are candidates to position themselves, for a next, future election, well this is not my case. It is a candidacy that wants to enter Congress. I am convinced that it is possible, that it is necessary that not only I, but also that new faces enter politics in decision-making places. What am I aiming for? In the medium and short term, I would tell you to create a candidacy project that can make many people cast their vote of confidence to enter Congress in the long term, from the Chamber of Deputies, from any position that touches me, to be able to generate transformations to have a new generation of politicians and decision makers who really care about people, about their compatriots.
What will be your lines of work?
We are working based on four pillars, concrete proposals. The first of them is education, where the idea is to work on public policies, which are to give a new education system, which guarantees us that there is free access education that is decentralized, that it is the same, study in Asunción or in the background of a company in Caazapá, in Canindeyú or in San Pedro and that is connected with the future. That we can have a new generation of the demographic bonus that we have been talking about for 10 years, that we can really take advantage of, giving our young people a lot of digital connection with the world, both in primary education and in secondary and university education, we are working to have proposals that lead us to have a public, university, free education that is compatible with the life of the young person. That there can be as many night careers as possible, because many young people have to work.
What do you think about the lack of employment?
We want to have a strong public policy project to put together a reference framework that allows young people to access their first job that is really worthy, that can contribute to social security. To give them health coverage and to start contributing early to a retirement plan. That it be a job where they earn a decent salary and also gain the experience to build a successful professional career over time, in the long term, what we want is to promote and encourage these types of opportunities. We see that there are many types of opportunities that just got out of school and still don’t have great job opportunities, because they are reserved for people with more experience, or with university degrees, or with technical degrees, so they have to settle for underemployment, so we want to work on it.
What do you think about insecurity?
Security in public spaces. We believe that in Asunción, the neighbors must take back the power of the public spaces that today are kidnapped by delinquency, abandonment and insecurity. Let’s start by lighting public spaces. Most of the squares, from 7 in the evening, become dark. We are used to having our lives behind closed doors, so we no longer grew up in a generation that knows its neighbors, having life outdoors, our squares, knowing who lives in our neighborhood, but on the contrary, we had to grow up with walls higher and higher, closing the doors after sunset, locking the doors, closing the windows. In some way, we must regain control of public spaces so that the people of Asuncion can enjoy what belongs to them.
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DATA SHEET
Full name: Carlos Sebastian Gimenez Iribas
Nickname: “Tati”
Place of birth: Assumption.
Date of Birth: September 17, 1997 (25)
Place of studies: Goethe, primary and secondary study. University students at the Catholic University (UC) School of Law with an emphasis on public law.
Family: He has three brothers. An older brother named Diego Giménez, and a younger; Alexandra Gimenez.
Hobbies: Play sports, play soccer, ride a bike, practice eco-adventure and play the guitar.
