Mónica Litza | |
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| National Deputy | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2021 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| In office 1 March 2016 – 10 December 2017 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| Provincial Senator of Buenos Aires | |
| In office 10 December 2003 – 10 December 2007 | |
| Constituency | Third Electoral Section |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1961-04-02)2 April 1961 (age 64) Avellaneda, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party(until 2013) Renewal Front(since 2013) |
| Other political affiliations | Front for Victory(2003–2013) United for a New Alternative(2015–2017) 1País(2017) Red por Argentina(2018) Frente de Todos(2019–present) |
| Alma mater | Universidad de Belgrano |
Mónica Edith Litza (born 2 April 1961) is anArgentine politician currently serving as aNational Deputy elected inBuenos Aires Province. Litza previously held the position from 2016 to 2017. She was a member of theSenate of Buenos Aires from 2003 to 2007 and of theAvellaneda City Council from 2015 to 2019.
Formerly a member of theJusticialist Party, Litza was one of the founding members of theRenewal Front, a dissident peronist alliance formed bySergio Massa. In addition to her elected posts, she has also served as head of the National Directorate for Recidivism from 2008 to 2013, and as Vice President ofCorreo Argentino from 2019 to 2021.
Litza was born on 2 April 1961 inAvellaneda, a port city in theGreater Buenos Aires conurbation. She studied law at theUniversidad de Belgrano, and has adoctorate in Political Science from thePontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA).[1]
In 2003, Litza was elected to theSenate of Buenos Aires Province as part of theJusticialist Party list in the Third Electoral Section.[2] In 2008, she was appointed as head of the National Directorate for Recidivism (Spanish:Dirección Nacional de Reincidencia), an agency within theMinistry of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina.
Ahead of the2013 legislative election, Litza broke away from the Justicialist Party and joined theRenewal Front, led bySergio Massa. She ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in Buenos Aires Province as the 18th candidate in the Renewal Front list,[3] which was the most voted list in the province, with 43.95% of the popular vote, but still did not receive enough votes for Litza to make it past theD'Hondt cut.[4]
In 2015, she ran for and won a seat in theAvellaneda City Council as part of the Renewal Front list.[5] In March 2016,PRO deputy Christian Gribaudo (who had run in the Renewal Front list in 2013) resigned from his seat to take up a post in the Buenos Aires provincial government, and Litza filled in his vacancy.[6]
She initially intended to run for mayor of Avellaneda in the 2019 election, but later declined her candidacy when the Renewal Front joined other sectors ofPeronism in forming theFrente de Todos (FDT), which backed the re-election campaign of incumbentJorge Ferraresi.[7] In January 2020, she was appointed Vice President ofCorreo Argentino.[8]
In the2021 legislative election, Litza once again ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, now as the 11th candidate in the FDT list.[9] With 38.59% of the vote, the FDT received enough votes for Litza to be elected. She was sworn in on 7 December 2021.[10]
| Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| Total | % | P. | ||||||||
| 2003 | Provincial Senator | Justicialist Party | 9 | Third Electoral Section | 907,448 | 45.15% | 1st[a] | Elected | [11] | |
| 2013 | National Deputy | Renewal Front | 18 | Buenos Aires Province | 3,943,056 | 43.95% | 1st[a] | Not elected[b] | [12] | |
| 2015 | Councillor | United for a New Alternative | 1 | Avellaneda Partido | 31,448 | 14.52% | 3rd | Elected | [13] | |
| 2021 | National Deputy | Frente de Todos | 11 | Buenos Aires Province | 3,444,446 | 38.59% | 2nd[a] | Elected | [14] | |
