Nathalia González Seligra

Nathalia Inés González Seligra (born 31 January 1979) is an Argentine teacher and politician who was a National Deputy from 2017 to 2019 for the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS).

Nathalia González Seligra
National Deputy
In office
21 June 2017 – 4 April 2019
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Personal details
Born
Nathalia Inés González Seligra

(1979-01-31) 31 January 1979
Stockholm, Sweden
Political partySocialist Workers' Party
Other political
affiliations		Workers' Left Front (2011–present)
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires

Early life and education

González Seligra was born on 31 January 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden, to Argentine parents who had fled the country's last civic–military dictatorship (1976–1983) and had been detained-disappeared in Uruguay.[1][2]

She studied high school at the Escuela Esteban Echeverría in Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires Province, and studied sociology at the University of Buenos Aires, graduating with a licenciatura in 2007.[3]

Political career

Gonzáles Seligra's political activism began in high school, where she joined her school's students' union and protested against the Federal Education Law supported by then-governor Felipe Solá. Concurrently, she joined HIJOS, the association of children of people disappeared during the 1976–1983 dictatorship in Argentina.[3]

She joined the Socialist Workers' Party (PST) in 2007. Additionally, she became involved in Pan y Rosas, the PST's feminist wing.[1] That year she also began her involvement in trade union politics; following the 2013 elections in the Single Union of Education Workers of Buenos Aires (SUTEBA), González Seligra became part of the Human Rights directive board of the union.[4]

Ahead of the 2015 general election, González Seligra was part of the Workers' Left Front (FIT) list of candidates to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Buenos Aires Province. The list only received enough votes to secure one seat in the Chamber of Deputies (Néstor Pitrola, of the Workers' Party), but due to the seat rotation agreement between the FIT's member parties, in 2017 Pitrola resigned from his seat and González Seligra assumed his place. She was sworn in on 21 June 2017.[5][6]

As a national deputy, González Seligra voted in favor of the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy Bill presented in 2018, which passed the Chamber but was struck down by the Senate.[7] She also introduced a bill, cosigned by Nicolás del Caño, to end the Argentine state's funding of the Catholic Church.[8]

She resigned from her bench on 4 April 2019, as part of the FIT's rotation agreement, and was replaced by Mónica Schlotthauer.[9] Following her resignation from Congress, González Seligra went back to working as a teacher, and in 2019 she ran for intendente (mayor) in La Matanza, receiving 3.71% of the popular vote and landing fourth.[10][11]

References
  1. "San Justo: Docente de La Matanza electa diputada nacional". La Matanza Informa (in Spanish). 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  2. "Las mujeres del Congreso Nacional". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  3. "NATHALIA GONZÁLEZ SELIGRA". La Izquierda Diario (in Spanish). 2015. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  4. Bogochwal, Sergio (19 April 2017). "Elecciones en el SUTEBA: la lista Multicolor presentó candidatos". el1digital.com.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  5. "Asumió la reemplazante de Pitrola jurando "acabar con la barbarie capitalista"". Parlamentario (in Spanish). 21 June 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  6. Millenaar, Federico (12 June 2019). "La izquierda en la Argentina: una historia reciente de divisiones y escasos resultados electorales". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  7. "González Seligra: "Pueden intentar impedir que sea ley, pero ya perdieron la batalla en las calles y la sociedad"". La Izquierda Diario (in Spanish). 13 June 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  8. "Diputados del FIT presentaron un proyecto de ley para que el Estado deje de financiar a la Iglesia". Télam (in Spanish). 15 March 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  9. "Recambio en la izquierda: sale Nathalia González, entra Mónica Schlotthauer". Parlamentario (in Spanish). 6 February 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  10. Muralla, José (7 May 2019). "Cumplido su mandato, la diputada nacional del PTS-FIT Gonzalez Seligra volvió a trabajar como docente". La Izquierda Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  11. "Nathalia González Seligra será candidata a intendenta en las listas del FIT Unidad". SNonline (in Spanish). 21 June 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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