María Inés Pilatti Vergara | |
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| Councillor of Magistracy | |
| Assumed office 6 February 2020 | |
| Appointed by | Senate |
| National Senator | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2013 | |
| Constituency | Chaco |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2009 – 10 December 2013 | |
| Constituency | Chaco |
| Provincial Deputy of Chaco | |
| In office 10 December 2005 – 10 December 2009 | |
| In office 10 December 1997 – 10 December 2001 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1958-08-02)2 August 1958 (age 67) |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political affiliations | Front for Victory (2003–2017) Citizen's Unity (2017–2019) Frente de Todos (2019–2023) Union for the Homeland (2023–present) |
| Alma mater | National University of the Northeast |
María Inés Patricia Elizabeth Pilatti Vergara (born 2 August 1958) is anArgentine politician, currently serving as aNational Senator forChaco Province since 2013. She previously served as aNational Deputy from 2009 to 2013, elected in Chaco as well, and as a member of theChaco Province Chamber of Deputies during two non-consecutive terms from 1997 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2009.
Pilatti Vergara was born on 2 August 1958 inResistencia,Chaco Province.[1] She finished high school at the Escuela de Comercio N°5 in Resistencia and studied law at theNational University of the Northeast Faculty of Law and Social and Political Sciences.[2]
Pilatti Vergara's political activism began in theJusticialist Party. She was elected to theChaco Province Chamber of Deputies in 1997, serving until 2001, and then again in 2005, serving until 2009.[1] As a provincial deputy, Pilatti Vergara was one of the most prominent opponents of then-Vice Governor of Chaco, Miguel Pibernus, who was forced to resign and arrested in 2001 on embezzlement charges.[3][4] At the2009 legislative elections, Pilatti Vergara was elected to theArgentine Chamber of Deputies in theChaco Merece Más ("Chaco Deserves More"; the provincial name of theFront for Victory) list; she was sworn in as National Deputy on 10 December 2009, and served until the expiration of her term on 10 December 2013.[1]
At the2013 legislative elections, Pilatti Vergara was the second candidate in theFront for Victory (FPV) list to theArgentine Senate in Chaco, and was comfortably elected as the list received 60.62% of the vote.[5] She was sworn in on 28 November 2013, with her mandate beginning on 10 December 2013.[6]
In 2016, Pilatti Vergara introduced legislation to aimed at protecting breast-feeding women; her bill would have mandated the creation of "public lactaries" and declared 12 July the "National Day for the Free Exercise of Maternal Breast-feeding".[7] She also supported a 2019 initiative to introduce atravesti trans work quota in the Argentine national government; although the initiative was not debated in the Senate, a similar initiative was established by a decree issued by PresidentAlberto Fernández in 2020.[8][9]
She was re-elected for a second six-year term in2019 as the second candidate in theFrente de Todos list in Chaco.[10]
Pilatti Vergara voted consistently in favour of theVoluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill, whichlegalized abortion in Argentina; the first such bill was struck down by her fellow senators on 8 August 2018, while the second was passed by the Senate on 30 December 2020.[11][12]
She has been a member of theCouncil of Magistracy of the Nation in representation of the Senate since 6 February 2020.[13]
Pilatti Vergara resides in Resistencia; she is married and has two sons.[1] In a 2020 interview, Pilatti Vergara stated that it was her son who convinced her to vote in favor of thelegalization of abortion.[14]
| Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| 1997 | Provincial Deputy | Justicialist Party | 3 | Chaco Province | 131,010 | 31.86% | 2nd[a] | Elected | [15][16] | |
| 2005 | Front for Victory | 1 | Chaco Province | 144,569 | 30.55% | 2nd[a] | Elected | [17] | ||
| 2009 | National Deputy | Chaco Deserves More | 1 | Chaco Province | 257,147 | 49.93% | 1st[a] | Elected | [18] | |
| 2013 | National Senator | Front for Victory | 2 | Chaco Province | 366,184 | 60.62% | 1st[a] | Elected | [19] | |
| 2019 | Everybody's Front | 2 | Chaco Province | 400,188 | 56.98% | 1st[a] | Elected | [20] | ||
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