Margarita Stolbizer

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Margarita Stolbizer
National Deputy
Assumed office
10 December 2021
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
In office
10 December 2009 – 10 December 2017
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
In office
10 December 1997 – 10 December 2005
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Personal details
Born (1955-03-17) 17 March 1955 (age 69)
Morón, Argentina
Political partyRadical Civic Union (1983–2007)
Generation for a National Encounter (since 2007)
Other political
affiliations		Broad Progressive Front (2011–2013)
Broad Front UNEN (2013–2015)
Progresistas (2015–2017)
1País (2017–2019)
Federal Consensus (2019–2021)
Juntos por el Cambio (2021–present)
ProfessionLawyer

Margarita Stolbizer (born 17 March 1955) is an

Argentine lawyer and politician. Originally a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), she founded her own party, Generation for a National Encounter (GEN) in 2007. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies
of Argentina on three occasions: from 1997 to 2005, from 2009 to 2017, and since 2021.

She was a presidential candidate in the 2015 general election, where she received 3.47% of the vote.

Early life and education

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.[1]

Political career

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.[2]

She had been affiliated with the centrist

ILO conferences on the subjects of labor rights and corruption, as well as the Human Rights Commission of the Latin American Parliament.[2]

She supported Alfonsín's initiative to create an alliance with the center-left

economic crisis.[3]

Stolbizer represented the

Argentine Congress in the 2002 conference of Parliamentarians for Global Action in Stockholm, and was named Vice President of their International Council.[2] She was nominated by the UCR as a candidate for the office of Governor of Buenos Aires Province for the 2003 elections, though fallout from President de la Rúa's chaotic, December 2001 resignation helped relegate her to fourth place (garnering 9% of the vote).[4]

She developed increasing differences with the UCR's leadership and in 2005, unsuccessfully challenged former President Alfonsín for the post of head of the Buenos Aires Province delegation to the UCR Central Committee.

ARI candidate Elisa Carrió (whose 2001 defection from the UCR had distanced the former colleagues), though Alfonsín's preference for the center-left economist Roberto Lavagna prevailed.[1]

The dissension led to her break with the UCR, whereby she formed the Generation for a National Encounter (GEN), by which she ran again for Governor of Buenos Aires Province during the same 2007 elections. She fared better, with 17% of the vote, while still placing third (Lavagna, for his part, also garnered third place). Stolbizer continued her policy for fostering alliances with former rivals: in 2007, she led her GEN party into Carrió's Civic Coalition, which grew into the largest opposition to Néstor and Cristina Kirchner's ruling Front for Victory; she also secured an alliance with Ricardo Alfonsín, a leading UCR figure and son of the late former President, ahead of the 2009 legislative elections.[1]

Personal life

Her son,

Argentine national basketball team
.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Noticias (in Spanish) Archived 2009-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c d Argentine Chamber of Deputies: Congresswoman Stolbizer's cv (in Spanish)
  3. ^ La Nación (in Spanish)
  4. ^ Results of the 2003 elections for Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "Diario Hoy {{in lang|es}}" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 27 June 2009.

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