As part of the celebration of Women’s Day, Cristina Kirchner inaugurated the Women Parliamentarians Hall in the Senate, to pay tribute to all those women who have passed through the institution.
the vice president Cristina Kirchner He stated that the place will serve as “a meeting space in homage to the first eight senators who took office 70 years ago from the hand of Eva Perón”.
During the opening event, Cristina Kirchner was accompanied by the administrative secretary of the Corps, María Luz Alonso. The senators that appear in the room were all representatives of the Feminine Peronist Party.
They are: Elvira Rodríguez Leonardi, Elena Di Girolamo, Hilda Leonor Pineda de Molins, Hilda Nélida Castañeira, Juana Larrauri, María Rosa Calviño de Gómez, María del Carmen Casco and Susana Correché.
As was known, the first six took office in April 1952. The other two joined the assembly in the following months, until Congress was dissolved by the coup of the self-styled Liberating Revolution.
The vice president stressed that, in addition to being the first women to serve in Parliament, they were also victims of persecution, even being imprisoned for months or years.
This way, the new space seeks to evoke and remember these women who were victims of persecution, after the coup that overthrew the then president Juan Domingo Perón, in 1955.
Cristina Kirchner will reappear in public this Friday
This coming March 10, the former president He will participate in an act in Viedma, where he will receive an honorary degree from the University of Río Negro, so there are great expectations.
During the event, it is expected that the president will give a speech in which she will focus on the foundations of justice to condemn her, since the act will take place one day after the foundations of the Highway cause are known.
