Mónica Edith Litza (born 2 April 1961) is an

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politician currently serving as a National Deputy elected in

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. Litza previously held the position from 2016 to 2017. She was a member of the Senate of Buenos Aires from 2003 to 2007 and of the

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City Council from 2015 to 2019. Formerly a member of the

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, Litza was one of the founding members of the

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, a dissident peronist alliance formed by

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. In addition to her elected posts, she has also served as head of the National Directorate for Recidivism from 2008 to 2013, and as Vice President of Correo Argentino from 2019 to 2021.

Early life and education

Litza was born on 2 April 1961 in

, a port city in the

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conurbation. She studied law at the Universidad de Belgrano, and has a

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in Political Science from the

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(UCA).

Political career

In 2003, Litza was elected to the Senate of Buenos Aires Province as part of the

list in the Third Electoral Section. In 2008, she was appointed as head of the National Directorate for Recidivism (), an agency within the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina. Ahead of the 2013 legislative election, Litza broke away from the Justicialist Party and joined the

, led by

. She ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in Buenos Aires Province as the 18th candidate in the Renewal Front list, which was the most voted list in the province, with 43.95% of the popular vote, but still did not receive enough votes for Litza to make it past the D'Hondt cut. In 2015, she ran for and won a seat in the

City Council as part of the Renewal Front list. In March 2016,

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deputy Christian Gribaudo (who had run in the Renewal Front list in 2013) resigned from his seat to take up a post in the Buenos Aires provincial government, and Litza filled in his vacancy. She initially intended to run for mayor of Avellaneda in the 2019 election, but later declined her candidacy when the Renewal Front joined other sectors of

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in forming the

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(FDT), which backed the re-election campaign of incumbent Jorge Ferraresi. In January 2020, she was appointed Vice President of Correo Argentino. In the 2021 legislative election, Litza once again ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, now as the 11th candidate in the FDT list. With 38.59% of the vote, the FDT received enough votes for Litza to be elected. She was sworn in on 7 December 2021.

Electoral history

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Litza, Monica 1961 births Living people People from Avellaneda Buenos Aires Province politicians Justicialist Party politicians Renewal Front politicians Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province Argentine deputies 2023–2025 Argentine deputies 2021–2023 Argentine deputies 2015–2017 Women members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies Members of the Buenos Aires Province Senate Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina alumni 21st-century Argentine women politicians University of Belgrano alumni