Ana Almirón | |
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| National Senator | |
| In office 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2021 | |
| Constituency | Corrientes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1984-07-02)2 July 1984 (age 41) |
| Party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political affiliations | Front for Victory(2015–2017) Citizen's Unity(2017–2019) Frente de Todos(since 2019) |
| Alma mater | National University of the Northeast |
Ana Claudia Almirón (born 2 July 1984) is anArgentine politician who was aNational Senator forCorrientes Province from 2015 to 2021. A member of theJusticialist Party, she was part of theFront for Victory andFrente de Todosparliamentary blocs.
Almirón was born on 2 July 1984 inPaso de los Libres, a border city inCorrientes Province just acrossUruguaiana,Brazil. She finished high school at the Escuela Normal de Paso de los Libres,[1] and then went on to study law at theNational University of the Northeast (UNNE), graduating in 2009. She has one child.[2]
Almirón began her political career inLa Cámpora, the youth wing of theFront for Victory. She was in charge of the Center for Judicial Access ofCorrientes from 2011 to 2015.[1]
In the2015 general election, Almirón ran for one of Corrientes' three seats in theArgentine Senate as the second candidate in theFront for Victory list, behindCarlos Espínola. Espínola and Almirón's list was the most voted in the province, with 53% of the vote, granting both candidates the seats for the majority as per the Senate'slimited voting system.[3] Upon taking office, aged 30, she became the youngest senator in the chamber.[1] Almirón formed part of the Front for Victorybloc, remaining in it even after most of its members broke away and formed theArgentina Federal bloc following the2017 legislative election.[4]
As a senator, Almirón formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Accords, National Economy and Investment, Women's Affairs, Labour and Social Security, and Health, and presided the commission on General Legislation.[2] She was a supporter of thelegalization of abortion in Argentina, voting in favour of the twoVoluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills debated by the Argentine Congress in 2018 and 2020.[5] During the 2020 debate in the Senate chamber, Almirón brought to nationwide attention the case of a baby shower held in Corrientes for a girl who had been raped.[6]
She ran for re-election in the2021 legislative election, this time as the second candidate in theFrente de Todos list, once again behind Espínola. The Frente de Todos list received 36%, losing by a wide margin to theECO list headed byEduardo Vischi, which received 58.9% of the vote.[7] As part of the second-most voted list, only Espínola was re-elected for the minority, while Almirón lost her chance at re-election.
