Nathalia Inés González Seligra (born 31 January 1979) is an Argentine teacher and politician who was a National Deputy from 2017 to 2019 for the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS).

Early life and education

González Seligra was born on 31 January 1979 in

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, to Argentine parents who had fled the country's last civic–military dictatorship (1976–1983) and had been detained-

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. She studied high school at the Escuela Esteban Echeverría in

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, and studied

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at the

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Faculty of Socal Sciences, graduating with a ''

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'' in 2007.

Political career

Gonzáles Seligra's political activism began in high school, where she joined her school's

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and protested against the Federal Education Law supported by then-

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. Concurrently, she joined HIJOS, the association of children of people disappeared during the 1976–1983 dictatorship in Argentina. She joined the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS) in 2007. Additionally, she became involved in Pan y Rosas, the PTS's feminist wing. That year she also began her involvement in trade union politics; following the 2013 elections in the Single Union of Education Workers of Buenos Aires (SUTEBA), González Seligra became part of the Human Rights directive board of the union. Ahead of the 2015 general election, González Seligra was part of the

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(FIT) list of candidates to the

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for

. The list only received enough votes to secure one seat in the Chamber of Deputies ( Néstor Pitrola, of the

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), but due to the seat rotation agreement between the FIT's member parties, in 2017 Pitrola resigned from his seat and González Seligra assumed his place. She was sworn in on 21 June 2017. As a national deputy, González Seligra voted in favor of the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy Bill presented in 2018, which passed the Chamber but was struck down by the

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. She also introduced a bill, cosigned by

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, to end the Argentine state's funding of the

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. She resigned from her bench on 4 April 2019, as part of the FIT's rotation agreement, and was replaced by

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. Following her resignation from Congress, González Seligra went back to working as a teacher, and in 2019 she ran for ''

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'' (mayor) in

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, receiving 3.71% of the popular vote and landing fourth.

References

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