Journalist Mónica Bottero, current director of Inmujeres, will be proclaimed this Monday night as the running mate of presidential candidate Pablo Mieres, for the Independent Party.
Bottero will be presented to the National Executive Board of the Independent Party as a candidate for vice president of the Republic in the national elections on October 27. It is assumed that her candidacy will be endorsed by the party authority, party sources told Diario La R.
Bottero worked for the newspaper El Día and the weekly Brecha. She was a reporter for Prensa Latina and a journalist for The New York Times. She directed the magazine Galería de Búsqueda between 2000 and 2017 and was a panelist on the program Todas las Voces, broadcast by Monte Carlo TV. She participated in the creation of Uruguay’s own version of the magazine Noticias de Argentina. She collaborated on the book Mujeres uruguayas, which contains biographies of prominent Uruguayan women in various fields, and wrote about Petrona Viera.
In February 2019, she joined the Independent Party and in June of that year, in anticipation of the internal elections, she began her political leadership role in the Independent Party.
She is currently the Director of the National Institute for Women of the Ministry of Social Development.
