Ada Mercedes Maza (born September 17, 1958, in
La Rioja
La Rioja () is an autonomous community and province in Spain, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Its capital is Logroño. Other cities and towns in the province include Calahorra, Arnedo, Alfaro, Haro, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, and N ...
) is an
Argentine
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Justicialist Party
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Current president Alberto Fernández belongs to the Justicialist Party (and has, since 2021, served ...
politician. She sat in the
Argentine Senate
The Honorable Senate of the Argentine Nation ( es, Honorable Senado de la Nación Argentina) is the upper house of the National Congress of Argentina.
Overview
The National Senate was established by the Argentine Confederation on July 29, 185 ...
representing
La Rioja Province in the majority block of the
Front for Victory
The Front for Victory ( es, Frente para la Victoria, FPV) was a centre-left Peronist electoral alliance in Argentina, and is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Former presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner we ...
.
Maza studied in La Rioja then civil engineering in
Córdoba Province. Back in La Rioja, she studied mining engineering. She is a technician of legislative administration. From 1973 she was a student activist and from 1976, following the military coup, she was detained without trial until 1978. Following the return of democracy in 1983 she took an executive position in the provincial Justicialist Party and was elected a councillor in La Rioja, presiding the treasury and budget committee. She was vice president of the provincial
Peronist Youth
Peronism, also called justicialism,. The Justicialist Party is the main Peronist party in Argentina, it derives its name from the concept of social justice., name=, group= is an Argentine political movement based on the ideas and legacy of Ar ...
.
On October 14, 2001, Maza was elected as a Senator. She was re-elected in 2005, taking the place of her brother
Ángel Maza
Ángel Eduardo Maza (born 18 December 1954) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician. He was the governor of La Rioja Province during several terms, until he was ousted by impeachment in 2007. His sister, Ada Maza, is a national senat ...
, who did not take his seat but continued as governor of La Rioja. Previously close to former President and fellow La Rioja Senator
Carlos Menem
Carlos Saúl Menem (2 July 1930 – 14 February 2021) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. Ideologically, he identified as a Peronist and supported economically liberal policies. H ...
, she is now in the ranks of followers of
Kirchnerism
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.
External links
Senate profile
References
Living people
People from La Rioja Province, Argentina
Members of the Argentine Senate for La Rioja
Justicialist Party politicians
1951 births
21st-century Argentine women politicians
21st-century Argentine politicians
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