Soledad Núñez

María Soledad Núñez Méndez (born 9 April 1983) is a Paraguayan civil engineer and politician. She was the candidate for vice president of Paraguay for the Concertación political alliance in the 2023 general elections as the running mate of Efraín Alegre, losing to both Santiago Peña and Pedro Alliana of the Colorado Party in an electoral landslide.[1][2]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Núñez and the second or maternal family name is Méndez.
Soledad Núñez
Executive Secretary of the National Secretariat of Housing and Habitat of Paraguay
In office
1 October 2014 – 6 August 2018
PresidentHoracio Cartes
Preceded byFrancisco Knapps
Succeeded byDany Durand
Personal details
Born (1983-04-09) April 9, 1983
Asunción, Paraguay
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		Concertación (since 2022)
SpouseBruno Raúl Defelippe Díaz (2020)

She previously served as executive secretary of the National Secretariat of Housing and Habitat of Paraguay from 2014 to 2018.[3]

Biography

Núñez was born in Asunción, Paraguay, on 9 April 1983. She was raised in the General Díaz neighborhood of the city and spent a large part of her childhood in the Chaco region along with her grandfather, a veteran of the Chaco War.[4]

She studied civil engineering at the National University of Asunción (UNA) and she later began her professional career in the private sector.[5]

In 2008, she obtained a master's degree in Management and Integrated Management of Construction Projects and Real Estate Assets at the Technical University of Madrid and the following year she became director of the Latin American NGO TECHO in Paraguay, a position she held until 2013. Also in those years, she was invited to integrate ad honorem the first National Country Strategy Team, an initiative of the Paraguayan government to organize a plan to reduce poverty in the country.[6]

In 2014, she received a scholarship at the Georgetown University School of Business.[7]

Political career

Minister

In 2014, she participated in the creation of the National Open Government Plan[8] and on October 1 of that year she was appointed Minister of the National Secretariat of Housing and Habitat (Senavitat) of her country[9] until 2018,[10] being one of the youngest female ministers in the country's history.[4] During her tenure, the National Habitat Committee was created.[11][12] In 2015 she was elected president of the Assembly of Ministers of Housing and Urban Development for Latin America and the Caribbean.[13] The figures of the previous administrations added up to 1,000 homes built, but she left a portfolio with 37,000 homes: 30,000 finished (or with more than 95% progress) and 7,000 in progress. The total investment for her period is around 2.5 billion guaraníes.[14]

After leaving office, in 2019 she did her second master's degree in Public Policy at the University of Oxford and was part of a program in Leadership and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.[4]

In 2020, during the quarantine declared as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, he joined the Settlement Support Network.[15] She also founded the NGO Alma Cívica, of which she was the executive director.[16]

Núñez is the academic director of the Diploma in Public Policy at the UCOM University,[17] member of the team of the dialogue initiative "Paraguay Ahora"”,[18] and is part of the Board of Directors of the NGO Enseña por Paraguay (Teach for all) and the advisory board of Roof Paraguay.[8]

2023 general election
Núñez and Efraín Alegre in December 2022.

In May 2022, Núñez presented her presidential candidacy for the National Concertation to compete in the 2023 general election. In August of that same year, however, she declined her presidential aspirations to be Efraín Alegre's vice-presidential candidate.[2]

We understand that alternation in Paraguay is more necessary than ever, it accentuates our responsibility that we cannot avoid. We have consolidated an alliance, which does not imply a resignation, I do not renounce my independence; It is a duo thinking about the country, because the country unites us[19]

— Soledad Núñez, in her official presentation as a vice-presidential candidate.

Personal life

Nunez is a Catholic. She married Bruno Raúl Defelippe Díaz de Espada in 2020.[7]

In 2002, Defelippe, 18, was physically assaulted by former president Juan Carlos Wasmosy when the former criticized the latter for his management as president.[20] Defelippe unsuccessfully ran for National Senator for the National Encounter Party in the 2023 general elections, together with his wife's candidacy for vice presidency.[21]

References
  1. Vicesar, Brian (2023-04-11). "ONG de Soledad Núñez, emplazada para demostrar imparcialidad". Diario HOY (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  2. "Excandidato y exministra buscan candidatura opositora a Presidencia paraguaya". SWI swissinfo.ch (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  3. "Exministra Soledad Núñez oficializa su candidatura presidencial - Nacionales - ABC Color". www.abc.com.py (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  4. "Soledad Núñez expone su hoja de vida marcada por causas sociales". Paraguay. Ultima Hora. 2022-06-02.
  5. "Soledad Núñez: "Tengo pleno convencimiento de que podemos construir algo mejor de lo que tenemos"". El Nacional. 27 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  6. "Soledad Núñez: "Esta pandemia no necesariamente va a transformar nuestra realidad en algo mucho mejor"". Revista PLUS (in Spanish). 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  7. "Soledad Núñez expone su hoja de vida marcada por causas sociales". ultimahora.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  8. "Cumbre Mundial de Politicas Publicas Soledad Nuñez". Retrieved 2022-09-15. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. "Asume nueva titular de Senavitat". Paraguay. Última Hora. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  10. "Soledad Núñez se lanza como candidata por la concertación". El Nacional. 16 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  11. "Realizaron el lanzamiento del Comité Nacional del Hábitat". Secretaría Técnica de Planificación del Desarrollo Económico y Social. 2016-12-12. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  12. Ferreira (2018-06-28). "Política Nacional de Vivienda y Hábitat fue presentada a la Senavitat". Agencia IP. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  13. "Sole Núñez: "Vamos a hacer historia juntos"". El Independiente. 2022-05-23. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  14. Vega, Nora (8 October 2018). "Soledad Núñez". Club de Ejecutivos de Paraguay. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  15. "Soledad Núñez: "Una crisis no se transforma automáticamente en un mejor futuro, hay que generar esas condiciones"". infonegocios.com.py. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  16. "Soledad Núñez compartió su experiencia en la Universidad de Oxford y ONU Hábitat". La Nación (Paraguay). Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  17. "UCOM invita a charlas gratuitas sobre políticas públicas con disertantes internacionales". Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  18. "'Paraguay ahora', es un espacio para incidir en políticas públicas". SNT.
  19. "Efraín Alegre y Soledad Núñez lanzan chapa contra la mafia que se apoderó el país". Última Hora. 2022-08-16. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  20. "twitter.com/bdefelippe/status/1626182318913163264". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-04-13.[self-published]
  21. "Estos son los 45 senadores electos para el periodo legislativo 2023-2028". ABC Color (in Spanish). 1 March 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023.

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