María Luisa Montoto de Rogel (born 28 March 1952) is an

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

ophthalmologist Ophthalmology (, ) is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and surgery of eye diseases and disorders. An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a ...

and politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in

Santiago del Estero Santiago del Estero (, Spanish for ''Saint-James-Upon-The-Lagoon'') is the capital of Santiago del Estero Province in northern Argentina. It has a population of 252,192 inhabitants, () making it the twelfth largest city in the country, with a sur ...

since 2019. She is a member of the

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(FCpS). She sits in the

Frente de Todos The Frente de Todos (translated as "Everyone's Front") was a centre-left political coalition of political parties in Argentina formed to support President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Kirchner. Fernández won the 2019 gen ...

parliamentary bloc. Born in the city of

, Montoto previously served as a councilwoman in the city council of

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from 2018 to 2019. She was the third alternate candidate in the FCpS list to the National Chamber of Deputies in the 2017 legislative election. In 2019, Claudia Ledesma Abdala, who had been elected as deputy in the FCpS list, was elected to the National Senate, and Montoto was sworn in to fill her vacancy. Montoto was elected in her own right in the 2021 legislative election as the third candidate in the FCpS list, which received 64.8% of the vote. Montoto forms part of the parliamentary commissions on Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Disabilities, Elderly People, Families and Childhood, and Social Action and Public Health. In 2020, she voted against the legalisation of abortion in Argentina.

Electoral history

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External links

Profile on the official website of the Chamber of Deputies
Living people 1952 births Ophthalmologists Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Santiago del Estero Women members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies People from Santiago del Estero 21st-century Argentine women politicians Argentine deputies 2019–2021 Argentine deputies 2021–2023 Argentine deputies 2023–2025 {{Argentina-politician-stub