Margarita Stolbizer
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National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province |
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Assumed office December 10, 2009 |
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In office December 10, 1997 – December 10, 2005 |
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March 17, 1955 Morón, Argentina |
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| Profession | Lawyer |
Margarita Stolbizer (born March 17, 1955) is an Argentine lawyer and prominent politician.
Margarita Stolbizer was born in the western Buenos Aires suburb of Morón, in 1955. She enrolled at the Universidad de Morón and graduated in 1978, after which she taught at her alma mater's law school for four years. An avid volleyball player, she created her city's first women's volleyball team. Stolbizer was named to the National Council of Lawyers' Associations and, following elections in 1983, she was appointed Social Policy Director for the city of Morón. In 2015, she ran as a Progressive Party candidate for the Argentine presidency.
She had been affiliated with the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR) − whose candidate, Raúl Alfonsín had been elected President in 1983 − since her days at the university and in 1985, she was elected to the Morón City Council on the UCR ticket. As such she gained prominence for her role in the investigation and impeachment of opposition Justicialist Party Mayor Juan Carlos Rousselot, in 1989. She was later named staff counsel to the Infrastructure Contracts Investigations Committee of the Legislature of the Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina's largest), and took part in ILO conferences on the subjects of labor rights and corruption, as well as the Human Rights Commission of the Latin American Parliament.
She supported Alfonsín's initiative to create an alliance with the center-left Frepaso and was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, in 1997. She was named to numerous committees dealing with legal and constitutional rights, and was eventually named President of the Penal Legislation Committee. Close to both Alfonsín and Congressman Federico Storani, her influence grew after Fernando de la Rúa 1999 election to the presidency and Storani's appointment as Interior Minister. She was strongly opposed, however, to the President's crisis decision to return Domingo Cavallo to the Economy Ministry, in March 2001. Cavallo had been first appointed to the post in 1991 by de la Rúa's predecessor and nemesis, Carlos Menem, and was considered responsible by Stolbizer for the prevailing economic crisis.
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