Elisa Carrió
| Elisa Carrió | |
|---|---|
 |
|
|
National Deputy for the City of Buenos Aires |
|
|
Assumed office 10 December 2009 |
|
|
In office 10 December 2005 – 14 March 2007 |
|
| National Deputy for Chaco Province |
|
|
In office 10 December 1995 – 10 December 2003 |
|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 26, 1956 Resistencia, Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Political party |
UCR (1995-2003) CC-ARI (2003-present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Civic Coalition |
| Alma mater | National University of the Northeast |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Elisa María Avelina "Lilita" Carrió (born 26 December, 1956) is an Argentine lawyer, professor and politician, who is an Argentine National Deputy for Buenos Aires. She was the founder of the Argentine political party Civic Coalition ARI (Coalición Cívica ARI).
Born in Resistencia, Chaco, in a traditional family, Carrió was a former teenage beauty queen. She enrolled at the National University of the Northeast and earned a Law Degree in 1978. Carrió entered public service as a technical advisor to the Chaco Province Prosecutor's Office in 1979, and was appointed to the provincial Solicitor General's office in 1980.
She later taught constitutional law at her alma mater, and from 1986 to 1988 served as director of the human rights department of the University of Buenos Aires Law School. Carrió entered politics at the request of her mentor, Raúl Alfonsín, was elected to the 1994 Constitutional Amendments Convention, during which she was a leading sponsor of Article 75, section 22, which mandated the adoption of international human rights treaties ratified by Argentina into the Argentine Constitution. She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for her province, representing the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), in 1995, and in 1997, obtained passage of a bill giving constitutional authority to the international Treaty of Disappeared Persons.
...
Wikipedia