Romina Del Plá (born 2 April 1972) is an activist in the

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.http://www.partidoobrero.com.ar/elecciones-2017/candidato/buenos-aires/129 brief biography (Spanish) She was elected to the Argentine national Chamber of Deputies at the

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. She was elected for

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as a candidate of the

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. She resigned her seat on 10 December 2020, in order to allow Juan Carlos Giordano of the Socialist Left to take her place as per the Left Front's seat rotation agreement. She was previously a history lecturer at the

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. Romina Del Plá has a 23-year teaching career in the

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classrooms and works in the

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41st High School and in the 3-d Technical high school of San Justo.

Early life and family

She comes from the

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family of leaders of the Partido Obrero (PO). Her father Miguel del Plá was leader of the PO of Santa Cruz. Nora Biaggio, her mother, is a retired teacher and leader of the ''Teaching Tribune group''. Her uncle Claudio del Plá is a current legislator of the PO in

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. Her parents were workers: Nora was a teacher and Miguel a metallurgist, and political activists. As a child Romina moved with her family to

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, it was their party decision for her parents to defend a party's activity during the

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.La historia de lucha de la diputada Romina Del Plá y su familiaъ (Spanish)
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Political career

Del Plá gained prominence in 2017 for challenging the power of Roberto Baradel in the elections for the leadership in the Buenos Aires teachers' union. She has become one of the main leaders of the movement today, supporting the anti-bureaucratic opposition among teachers. From her own words "they want the workers' revolution and they also want to lead the working class in a socialist way out". She supports the right of teachers to have sick leave certificates and against the reduction of the educational budget. She is a General Secretary of the Educational Trade Union ''Suteba Matanza'' of Buenos Aires (SUTEBA) of the town

. Romina Del Pla as a national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires from the Left Front was supported by 1,300,000 votes throughout the country and assumed her bench in the Lower House of

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on December 10, 2017. Her goal as a deputy is to face the labor, retirement and educational reforms. In 2019 she was the FIT-U's candidate for vice-president, alongside

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for president. In 2021 she was elected as a national deputy for

Electoral history

Executive

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References

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