Cecilia Moreau: “It is an honor as a political activist to have been appointed president of the Chamber”
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The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Cecilia Moreau, thanked her peers on Tuesday for “the honor as a political activist” of having been appointed to that position, highlighted her “additional responsibility for being a woman” and anticipated that she will not govern with her “hormones “, but he will do it with his “head and convictions”.
“I want to thank my colleagues for honor as a political activist to have been designated at this stage as president of the Chamber. I assume the commitment to express the highest institution of democratic representation, “he added in his inauguration speech.
The legislator of the Front of All (FdT) highlighted that “there is diversity in this parliament” and promised to “direct this parliament with the tools that the constitution and the regulations” provide.
“I am going to manage the dissent and seek the consensus that society expects,” he anticipated, adding that this occurs in the context of “a government that is trying to leave everything so that Argentina can move forward.”
He also stated that “for me It is not a simple task being here because I replace the one who leads me politically, whom I want to thank for his temperance in managing this Chamber and for implementing new technologies in the midst of the pandemic”.
Moreau said she was “very proud of each of the initiatives that this chamber generated in the pandemic” and highlighted “the vote on the Solidarity Contribution project.”
“Next year marks 40 years of democracy, and we hope to rise to the occasion, with the premise that the full rule of law can always be guaranteed,” he remarked.
On the other hand, he stated that “There is an additional responsibility for being a woman, the first to preside over this chamber” and stressed that “I am not going to govern this Chamber with my hormones, I am going to do it with my head and with my convictions”.
Cecilia Moreau: A political activist marked by Alfonsinism and closely trusted by Massa
The new president of the Chamber of Deputies, Cecilia Moreau, came to hold that position after almost seven years as a national legislator, a previous step through the Buenos Aires lower house and initial militancy in the Radical Youth, following in the footsteps of her father, the alfonsinista Leopoldo Moreau.
A member of the Renovating Front led by Sergio Massa, the deputy became one of the main legislative swords of that space, which played the opposition role of the government of the Front of All (between 2011 and 2015) and that of Cambiemos (between 2015 and 2019 ).
Moreau, 45, grew up in the Buenos Aires municipality of San Isidro, a district from which his father projected himself politically as a member of the National Coordinating Board, an internal space of the UCR that underpinned the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín.
In her political militancy, from 2001 to 2003, she was secretary of the Radical Youth; From 2005 to 2008, she did it as Secretary of Political Action of the Buenos Aires UCR, and between 2012 and 2014 she was General Secretary of that district committee, until she formally left the centennial party.
In December 2015, she was elected as a national deputy for the Nueva Alternativa list, a space in which the Renovador Front converged; and four years later she renewed her seat on behalf of the Front of All.
In her activity in the National Congress, she was one of the main promoters of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE) bill, both in the 2018 debate, which after its approval in Deputies failed in the Senate, and in the 2020 debate, which finally made it possible for the initiative to become law.
From the presidency of the General Legislation Commission, which he reached at the end of 2019, he articulated with the opposition the debates of most of the initiatives that passed through that strategic body of work, and in recent months he led the analysis of the project on rental law.
His mother, María del Carmen Banzas, was also a national and provincial deputy, while his ex-partner, Leandro Santoro -with whom he had his daughter Francisca- is part of the ranks of the Frente de Todos bloc and is a national deputy for the City of Buenos Aires .
