Ada Mercedes Maza (born September 17, 1958, in

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) is an

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politician. She sat in the

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representing La Rioja Province in the majority block of the

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. Maza studied in La Rioja then civil engineering in

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. Back in La Rioja, she studied mining engineering. She is a technician of legislative administration. From 1973 she was a student activist and from 1976, following the military coup, she was detained without trial until 1978. Following the return of democracy in 1983 she took an executive position in the provincial Justicialist Party and was elected a councillor in La Rioja, presiding the treasury and budget committee. She was vice president of the provincial

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. On October 14, 2001, Maza was elected as a Senator. She was re-elected in 2005, taking the place of her brother

Ángel Maza Ángel Eduardo Maza (born 18 December 1954) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician. He was the governor of La Rioja Province during several terms, until he was ousted by impeachment in 2007. His sister, Ada Maza, is a national senato ...

, who did not take his seat but continued as governor of La Rioja. Previously close to former President and fellow La Rioja Senator

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, she is now in the ranks of followers of

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Senate profile

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Living people People from La Rioja Province, Argentina Members of the Argentine Senate for La Rioja Justicialist Party politicians 1951 births 21st-century Argentine women politicians 21st-century Argentine politicians {{Argentina-politician-stub