Margarita Stolbizer

Margarita Stolbizer
National Deputy
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 December 2021
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
In office
10 December 2009 – 10 December 2017
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
In office
10 December 1997 – 10 December 2005
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Personal details
Born (1955-03-17) 17 March 1955
Morón, Argentina
Political partyRadical Civic Union (1983–2007)
Generation for a National Encounter (since 2007)
Other political
affiliations		Broad Progressive Front (2011–2013)
Broad Front UNEN (2013–2015)
Progresistas (2015–2017)
1País (2017–2019)
Federal Consensus (2019–2021)
Juntos por el Cambio (2021–present)
ProfessionLawyer

Margarita Stolbizer (born 17 March 1955) is an Argentine lawyer and politician. Originally a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), she founded her own party, Generation for a National Encounter (GEN) in 2007. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina on three occasions: from 1997 to 2005, from 2009 to 2017, and since 2021.

She was a presidential candidate in the 2015 general election, where she received 3.47% of the vote.

Early life and education

Margarita Stolbizer was born in the western Buenos Aires suburb of Morón, in 1955. She enrolled at the Universidad de Morón and graduated in 1978, after which she taught at her alma mater's law school for four years. An avid volleyball player, she created her city's first women's volleyball team.[1]

Political career

Stolbizer was named to the National Council of Lawyers' Associations and, following elections in 1983, she was appointed Social Policy Director for the city of Morón.[2]

She had been affiliated with the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR) − whose candidate, Raúl Alfonsín had been elected President in 1983 − since her days at the university and in 1985, she was elected to the Morón City Council on the UCR ticket. As such she gained prominence for her role in the investigation and impeachment of opposition Justicialist Party Mayor Juan Carlos Rousselot, in 1989.[1] She was later named staff counsel to the Infrastructure Contracts Investigations Committee of the Legislature of the Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina's largest), and took part in ILO conferences on the subjects of labor rights and corruption, as well as the Human Rights Commission of the Latin American Parliament.[2]

She supported Alfonsín's initiative to create an alliance with the center-left Frepaso and was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, in 1997. She was named to numerous committees dealing with legal and constitutional rights, and was eventually named President of the Penal Legislation Committee.[2] Close to both Alfonsín and Congressman Federico Storani, her influence grew after Fernando de la Rúa 1999 election to the presidency and Storani's appointment as Interior Minister. She was strongly opposed, however, to the President's crisis decision to return Domingo Cavallo to the Economy Ministry, in March 2001. Cavallo had been first appointed to the post in 1991 by de la Rúa's predecessor and nemesis, Carlos Menem, and was considered responsible by Stolbizer for the prevailing economic crisis.[3]

Stolbizer represented the Argentine Congress in the 2002 conference of Parliamentarians for Global Action in Stockholm, and was named Vice President of their International Council.[2] She was nominated by the UCR as a candidate for the office of Governor of Buenos Aires Province for the 2003 elections, though fallout from President de la Rúa's chaotic, December 2001 resignation helped relegate her to fourth place (garnering 9% of the vote).[4]

She developed increasing differences with the UCR's leadership and in 2005, unsuccessfully challenged former President Alfonsín for the post of head of the Buenos Aires Province delegation to the UCR Central Committee.[5] The party's weakness ahead of the 2007 presidential election prompted the UCR to endorse a stronger candidate akin to their views, which combine social democratic policies with a longtime anti-Peronism. Stolbizer, by then a leader in the UCR's congressional delegation, favored endorsing ARI candidate Elisa Carrió (whose 2001 defection from the UCR had distanced the former colleagues), though Alfonsín's preference for the center-left economist Roberto Lavagna prevailed.[1]

The dissension led to her break with the UCR, whereby she formed the Generation for a National Encounter (GEN), by which she ran again for Governor of Buenos Aires Province during the same 2007 elections. She fared better, with 17% of the vote, while still placing third (Lavagna, for his part, also garnered third place). Stolbizer continued her policy for fostering alliances with former rivals: in 2007, she led her GEN party into Carrió's Civic Coalition, which grew into the largest opposition to Néstor and Cristina Kirchner's ruling Front for Victory; she also secured an alliance with Ricardo Alfonsín, a leading UCR figure and son of the late former President, ahead of the 2009 legislative elections.[1]

Personal life

Her son, Nicolás Laprovíttola, is a professional basketball player for FC Barcelona of the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague and for the Argentine national basketball team.

Electoral history

Executive

Electoral history of Margarita Stolbizer
Election Office List Votes Result Ref.
Total % P.
2007 Governor of Buenos Aires Civic Coalition 1,158,672 16.55% 2nd Not elected [6]
2011 Broad Progressive Front 904,912 11.64% 3rd Not elected [7]
2015 President of Argentina Progresistas 632,551 2.51% 5th Not elected [8]

Legislative

Electoral history of Margarita Stolbizer
Election Office List # District Votes Result Ref.
Total % P.
1985 City Councillor Radical Civic Union 3 Morón Partido 113,513 37.77% 1st[a] Elected [9]
1997 National Deputy Alliance 13 Buenos Aires Province 3,315,703 48.28% 1st[a] Elected [10]
2001 Alliance 3 Buenos Aires Province 814,551 15.35% 2nd[a] Elected [11]
2009 Social and Civic Agreement 1 Buenos Aires Province 1,613,037 21.46% 3rd[a] Elected [12]
2013 Progressive, Civic and Social Front 1 Buenos Aires Province 1,050,608 11.71% 3rd[a] Elected [13]
2017 National Senator 1País 2 Buenos Aires Province 1,069,747 11.31% 3rd[a] Not elected [14]
2021 National Deputy Together 12 Buenos Aires Province 3,550,321 39.77% 1st[a] Elected [14]
  1. ^ a b c d e f g Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Noticias (in Spanish) Archived 2009-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c d Argentine Chamber of Deputies: Congresswoman Stolbizer's cv (in Spanish)
  3. ^ La Nación (in Spanish)
  4. ^ Results of the 2003 elections for Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires
  5. ^ "Diario Hoy {{in lang|es}}" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
  6. ^ "Elecciones 2007" (PDF). juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar (in Spanish). Junta Electoral de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  7. ^ "Elecciones 2011" (PDF). juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar (in Spanish). Junta Electoral de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  8. ^ "Elecciones 2015". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. 28 August 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Elecciones 1985" (PDF). juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar (in Spanish). Junta Electoral de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  10. ^ "Elecciones Nacionales ESCRUTINIO DEFINITIVO 1997" (PDF). Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 March 2016.
  11. ^ "Recorriendo las Elecciones de 1983 a 2013 - Senadores Nacionales". Dirección Nacional Electoral. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Elecciones Nacionales Totales por Provincia" (PDF). Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2011.
  13. ^ "Recorriendo las Elecciones de 1983 a 2013 - Diputados Nacionales". Dirección Nacional Electoral. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  14. ^ a b "Consulta de Escrutinios Definitivos". www.padron.gob.ar.
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