Daniela Payssé, Uruguayan politician, Died at 72

Daniela Paysse was born on October 17, 1946, and pass-away on December 21, 2018.

She was a Uruguayan senator for the Broad Front party.

In 2000 Daniela was an alternate national representative for Montevideo, a position she held until 2005, joining the Finance Commission.

In 2005 she was re-elected as a National Representative by the Uruguay Assembly sector of the Broad Front.

During this period she joined the Commissions on Human Rights, Budgets, and Gender and Equity. Daniela also chaired the Special Commission of the General Assembly for the Follow-up of the Prison Situation.

She chaired the Human Rights Commission of the General Assembly, in charge of the integration of the Directive Council of the National Institution of Human Rights and Ombudsman.

In 2010, Daniela was reelected again as National Representative for Montevideo. She was part of the Human Rights, Budget, and Special Commissions on Gender and Equity, Special Commission for Monitoring the Prison Situation of the General Assembly, and was also a member of the Bicameral Women's Bank which is made up of legislators from all the political parties of Uruguay.

Daniela joined the Mercosur Parliament for the period 2010 to 2015. In the 2010 debate, she argued against the use of the theory of the two demons when interpreting the Law on the Expiration of the Punitive Claims of the State.

In 2013, Daniela assumed the first vice presidency of the House of Representatives. In the 2014 general election, she was elected senator for her party. Payssé had six children and eight grandchildren.

Daniela Paysse died from an infection on December 21, 2018 at the age of 72.