Cecelia Felgueras (born 6 January 1962) is an Argentine politician. She was the comptroller of

PAMI Usermaatre Setepenre Pami was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 22nd Dynasty who ruled for 7 years. "Pami" in Egyptian, means "the Cat" or "He who belongs to the Cat astet" Identity Pami's precise relationship with his immediate predecessor ...

during the

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of Fernando de la Rúa but would lose the position because of prosecution over alleged corruption. She was then briefly the Deputy Chief of Government of

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Aníbal Ibarra Aníbal Ibarra (born March 1, 1958) is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Buenos Aires. Biography Ibarra was born in Lomas de Zamora, a district located in the southern region of Greater Buenos Aires. His father was a P ...

's first term, but was removed from this position as well. She was the first woman to hold that position. She has a degree in history.

Career

On 15 December 1999, she was named President of

by President Fernando de la Rúa. The next year, she and other former PAMI heads Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Daniel Tonietto before a court because of a complaint from the Argentine Federation of Chambers of Pharmacy (FACAF) accusing the three politicians of favoritism towards Farmacéuticos Argentinos SA (FASA) for the acquisition of influenza vaccines. Also among the complaints was an accusation that PAMI paid the FASA an unregistered sum of 150,000 pesos. In 2000, Felgueras became the first woman to head the government of the City of

with her election on 17 August. The next month, she met and greeted

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( ar, عبدالله بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود ''ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al ʿAzīz Āl Saʿūd'', Najdi Arabic pronunciation: ; 1 August 1924 – 23 January 2015) was King of Saudi Arabia, King and Pri ...

, the King of Saudi Arabia, and gave him the

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. Felgueras's friendship with Ibarra collapsed on 24 January 2001. He criticized the city's lax response to a storm that had recently struck the city, in whose aftermath only a few members of the city's leadership arrived for their jobs.

Citations

{{DEFAULTSORT:Felgueras, Cecelia Living people 1962 births Politicians from Buenos Aires 21st-century Argentine women politicians 21st-century Argentine politicians Argentine people of Spanish descent Radical Civic Union politicians