Hilda Beatriz González de Duhalde, widely known as Chiche Duhalde, (born 14 October 1946) is an Argentine politician member of the Justicialist Party. She served as a Senator for Buenos Aires Province, and as the First Lady during the presidency of her husband,

Eduardo Duhalde Eduardo Alberto Duhalde (; born 5 October 1941) is an Argentine Peronist politician who served as the interim President of Argentina from January 2002 to May 2003. He also served as Vice President and Governor of Buenos Aires in the 1990s. B ...

Biography

González de Duhalde was born in

Lomas de Zamora Lomas de Zamora is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, located south of the City of Buenos Aires and within the metropolitan area of Greater Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Lomas de Zamora Partido and has a population of 111,897 ...

, Buenos Aires Province, and studied to become a teacher. She has five children with her husband. She assisted her husband in his political career and took on several public positions in family and women's policy. In 1997 Duhalde was elected a National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province, serving again between 2003 and 2005. During the ''interim''

Presidency A presidency is an administration or the executive, the collective administrative and governmental entity that exists around an office of president of a state or nation. Although often the executive branch of government, and often personified b ...

of her husband, she acted as Minister of Social Welfare and ran the country's food aid programme, a key role in the aftermath of the country's economic crisis. A member of the Justicialist Party (PJ), Duhalde has nevertheless opposed the government of fellow

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. However the official PJ candidate in Buenos Aires Province district for the 2005 senatorial elections, Hilda Duhalde came second to

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (; born 19 February 1953), often referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician who has served as the Vice President of Argentina since 2019. She also served as the President o ...

, who was to become President of Argentina two years later.

External links

Senate profileWebsiteEduardo Duhalde's website, developed by Grupo de Apoyo Comunicacional Eduardo Duhalde (the Presidential candidate's communications team)
1946 births Living people People from Lomas de Zamora Argentine people of Spanish descent Members of the Argentine Senate for Buenos Aires Province Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province First ladies and gentlemen of Argentina Justicialist Party politicians Women members of the Argentine Senate Women members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies {{Argentina-politician-stub