Beatriz Rojkés de Alperovich
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Argentine Senator from Tucumán Province |
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Assumed office December 10, 2009 |
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| Provisional President of the Argentine Senate | |
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In office November 30, 2011 – February 28, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | José Pampuro |
| Succeeded by | Gerardo Zamora |
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National Deputy from Tucumán Province |
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In office December 10, 2005 – December 10, 2009 |
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Beatriz Liliana Rojkés February 4, 1956 San Miguel de Tucumán |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Political party | Justicialist Party/Front for Victory |
| Spouse(s) | José Alperovich |
| Profession | Psychopedadogue Auto dealership proprietor |
| Religion | Judaism |
Beatriz Liliana Rojkés de Alperovich (born February 4, 1956) is an Argentine psychopedagogue, businesswoman, and Justicialist Party politician. She was elected to the Argentine Senate in 2009, and in 2011 became the first woman and first Jew to be designated as its Provisional President; the post put her second in Argentine line of succession, after Vice President Amado Boudou.
Both Rojkés and her husband, José Alperovich, who has been governor of Tucumán since 2003, are considered leading “K” (or Kirchner) politicians who are “very close to the Casa Rosada.” Their lavish way of life has been severely criticized, as has the fact that several of their relatives have been given high-level government jobs. Both of them have been the subject of corruption allegations. Also, Rojkés has frequently made remarks that have been viewed in the media as insensitive to the poor and to crime victims. In 2015, she visited flood victims in the town of El Molino and made headlines when she called one of them a “lazy bum” and boasted of having ten mansions.
Beatriz Liliana Rojkés was born in San Miguel de Tucumán to Luisa Werblud and Salomón Rojkés, both Ashkenazi Jews who emigrated from Europe. Salomón Rojkés inaugurated a textile mill in the city, Textil Americana. She earned a degree in Psychopedagogy and married a fellow member of Tucumán's Jewish community, José Alperovich, with whom she had four children.
She became a partner in her father-in-law's auto dealership, León Alperovich de Tucumán S.A., in 1997, and by 2010 controlled 98% of the firm (one of Tucumán's largest Ford and Volkswagen distributors). Following the election of her husband as Governor of Tucumán, she was elected in 2005 to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies on the Front for Victory ticket (the majority, center-left Justicialist Party faction then headed by President Néstor Kirchner). She introduced numerous bills advancing children's rights, women's rights and nutrition, among other issues.
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