María Luisa Montoto

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In this Argentine name, the surname is Montoto and the marital name is Rogel.
María Luisa Montoto
National Deputy
Assumed office
19 December 2019
ConstituencySantiago del Estero
Personal details
Born (1952-03-28) 28 March 1952 (age 72)
Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Political partyCivic Front for Santiago
Other political
affiliations		Frente de Todos (2019–2023)
Union for the Homeland (2023–present)

María Luisa Montoto de Rogel (born 28 March 1952) is an Argentine ophthalmologist and politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in Santiago del Estero since 2019. She is a member of the Civic Front for Santiago (FCpS). She sits in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc.[1]

Born in the city of Santiago del Estero, Montoto previously served as a councilwoman in the city council of La Banda from 2018 to 2019.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4][5]

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.[1] In 2020, she voted against the legalisation of abortion in Argentina.[6]

Electoral history[edit]

Electoral history of María Luisa Montoto
Election Office List # District Votes Result Ref.
Total % P.
2017 National Deputy Civic Front for Santiago 1 alt. Santiago del Estero Province 384,125 70.09% 1st[a] Not elected[b] [7]
2021 Civic Front for Santiago 3 Santiago del Estero Province 363,144 64.88% 1st[a] Elected [8]
  1. ^ a b Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.
  2. ^ Assumed office on 9 December 2019 following the resignation of the first candidate on the list, Claudia Ledesma Abdala.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "María Luisa Montoto". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Silvia Sayago, "Pepe" Herrera y María Luisa Montoto de Rogel, los precandidatos del Frente Cívico". El Liberal (in Spanish). 24 July 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Quiénes son los 23 diputados que asumieron antes de la sesión por Emergencia". Perfil (in Spanish). 19 December 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Santiago, un oasis del FdT al ganar las 3 bancas en juego con el 60%". Parlamentario (in Spanish). 14 November 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Jura de Diputados: a qué hora se presentarán los nuevos legisladores y cuándo comienzan sus funciones parlamentarias". A24 (in Spanish). 4 December 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Aborto: cómo votaron los diputados de Santiago del Estero en el Congreso". Clarín (in Spanish). 11 December 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Elecciones 2017". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Elecciones 2021". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. Retrieved 4 February 2023.[permanent dead link]

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