1. Cecilia Moreau was born on 5 December 1976 and is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy representing Buenos Aires Province since 2015, and as President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2022 to 2023.
16 Facts About Cecilia Moreau
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Cecilia Moreau is the first woman to hold that position.
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Previously, from 2007 to 2011 and again in 2015, Moreau served as a member of the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies elected in the First Electoral Section.
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Cecilia Moreau is the daughter of prominent UCR leader Leopoldo Moreau, a former President of the Chamber of Deputies.
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Cecilia Moreau was born on 5 December 1976 in Olivos, a suburb in the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation.
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Cecilia Moreau is the daughter of Leopoldo Moreau, a prominent Radical Civic Union leader who served as president of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and as the UCR's presidential candidate in 2003.
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Cecilia Moreau has four siblings, one of which, Carmela, is active in politics.
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Cecilia Moreau followed her father's footsteps in joining the UCR, and in 2001, she was appointed secretary general of the Juventud Radical.
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Cecilia Moreau was elected to the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies at the 2007 provincial elections; she ran in the UCR list in the First Electoral Section.
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Cecilia Moreau finished her mandated in 2011, and later served in the Provincial Chamber briefly between August and December 2015.
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Between 2012 and 2014, Cecilia Moreau was secretary general of the Radical Civic Union committee in Buenos Aires Province.
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Cecilia Moreau ran again for a second term in 2019, this time as the sixth candidate in the Frente de Todos list, following the agreement between the Renewal Front and other sectors of Peronism.
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On 2 August 2022, following the appointment of Sergio Massa as minister of economy, Cecilia Moreau was elected to succeed him as president of the Chamber of Deputies.
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Cecilia Moreau became the first woman to ever hold the position.
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Cecilia Moreau was a vocal supporter of the legalisation of abortion in Argentina, and voted consistently in favour of the two Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills, in 2018 and 2020.
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Cecilia Moreau was married to fellow politician Leandro Santoro, a political protege of her father's.