Graciela Fernández Meijide

Graciela Fernández Meijide

Rosa Graciela Castagnola de Fernández Meijide (born February 27, 1931 in Avellaneda , Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine human rights activist and former politician of the Frente País Solidario (FrePaSo).

Life

In 1977 her son Pablo was kidnapped by the military government during the military dictatorship and never reappeared. Graciela Fernández Meijide then became a member of the human rights organization Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos . In the Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas , she took over the management of the department for receiving complaints.

In 1993 Graciela Fernández Meijide was elected for the first time as a member of the National Congress for the Frente Grande . After her party merged with other small left parties to form Frente País Solidario , she became a senator in 1995 . In the 1997 parliamentary elections, Fernández Meijide prevailed in the province of Buenos Aires against Hilda González de Duhalde , the wife of the then governor Eduardo Duhalde , and this success made him a serious candidate for the 1999 presidential elections. After establishing an electoral alliance with the Unión Cívica Radical she was defeated in a vote within the alliance on the candidacy for the office of president to the later incumbent Fernando de la Rúa . She became Minister for Social Development and the Environment in the Cabinet of President de la Rúa. After the break of the alliance between the FrePaSo and the Unión Cívica Radical, Graciela Fernández Meijide resigned from the government like all members of the Frente. Then she withdrew from politics.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "The party's over." Latin America News December 1997
2. ↑ Candidates for the Alianza Latin America News January 1999
3. ↑ A Coming and Going in the Latin America Government News April 2001