Romina Del Plá

Romina Del Plá (born 2 April 1972) is an activist in the Workers' Party (Argentina).[1]

Romina Del Plá
National Deputy
Assumed office
10 December 2017
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Personal details
Born (1972-02-04) 4 February 1972
NationalityArgentine
Political partyWorkers' Party
Other political
affiliations		Workers' Left Front
RelativesClaudio del Plá (uncle)
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires

She was elected to the Argentine national Chamber of Deputies at the 2017 Argentine legislative election. She was elected for Buenos Aires Province as a candidate of the Workers' Left Front.[2][3]

She was previously a history lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires[1] and Romina Del Plá has a 23 years teacher's career in the La Matanza classrooms and she works in the Aldo Bonzi 41st High School and in the 3-d Technical high school of San Justo.

Early life and family

She comes from the Trotskyist family of leaders of the Partido Obrero (P0). Her father Miguel del Plá was leader of the PO of Santa Cruz. Nora Biaggio, her mother, is a retired teacher and leader of the Teaching Tribune group. Her uncle Claudio del Plá is a current legislator of the PO in Salta. Her parents were workers: Nora was a teacher and Miguel a metallurgist, and political activists. As a child Romina moved with her family to Córdoba, it was their party decision for her parents to defend a party's activity during the dictatorship.[4]

Political career

Del Plá gained prominence in 2017 for challenging the power of Roberto Baradel in the elections for the leadership in the Buenos Aires teachers' union.[5] She has become one of the main leaders of the labor movement today, struggling for the anti-bureaucratic opposition among teachers. From her own words "they want the workers' revolution and they also want to lead the working class in a socialist way out".[4] She stands for the rights of teachers to have sick leave certificates and against the reduction of the educational budget.[6] She is a General Secretary of the Educational Trade Union Suteba Matanza of Buenos Aires (SUTEBA) of the town La Matanza. Romina Del Pla as a national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires from the Left Front was supported by 1,300,000 votes throughout the country and assumed her bench in the Lower House of National Congress on December 10, 2017. Her goal as a deputy is to face the labor, retirement and educational reforms. [7]

In 2019 she was the FIT-U's candidate for vice-president, alongside Nicolás del Caño for president.

References
  1. http://www.partidoobrero.com.ar/elecciones-2017/candidato/buenos-aires/129 brief biography (Spanish)
  2. http://www.po.org.ar/comunicados/politicas/romina-del-pla-diputada-electa-el-frente-de-izquierda-hizo-una-enorme-eleccion article on her election (Spanish)
  3. http://www.po.org.ar/comunicados/politicas/hoy-a-las-11h-asume-como-diputada-nacional-romina-del-pla report on her taking her seat (Spanish)
  4. La historia de lucha de la diputada Romina Del Plá y su familiaъ (Spanish) Retrieved on 17 Feb 2018
  5. Romina Del Plá: "La candidatura de Esteban Bullrich es un premio por eliminar la paritaria nacional docente" (Spanish) Retrieved on 17 Feb 2018
  6. brava Romina Del Plá (Spanish) Retrieved on 17 Feb 2018
  7. De la mano de la Izquierda, el Suteba Matanza logra una banca en el Congreso Nacional (Spanish) Retrieved on 17 Feb 2018
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