Lilian Graciela Samaniego Gonzalez was born on 25 February 1965 and is a Paraguayan pharmaceutical chemist and politician of the Colorado Party.
16 Facts About Lilian Samaniego
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Lilian Samaniego has been a member of the Senate of Paraguay since 2004.
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Lilian Samaniego was born on 25 February 1965, in San Vicente, a neighborhood of Asuncion, to parents Ignacio E Samaniego and Elisa Gonzalez de Samaniego, recognized leaders of the ANR.
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Lilian Samaniego completed her primary and secondary studies at the Cristo Rey de Asuncion School, from which she graduated as a Bachelor of Science and Letters in 1983.
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Lilian Samaniego entered the Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, and in 1987 she graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Sciences with the degree of pharmaceutical chemist.
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Lilian Samaniego completed postgraduate studies in the United States, Europe, and the Mercosur countries.
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Lilian Samaniego was investigated as a possible conspirator, and lost her position, but charges against her were later dropped.
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Lilian Samaniego joined the Colorado Party on 24 March 1982, where she was very active, holding various positions as a delegate, proxy, political secretary of the governing board, and president of the women's central commission.
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Lilian Samaniego has been part of some of the party's internal movements, such as the United Colorado Movement, the Republican Participation Movement, and the Colorado Vanguard Movement.
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Lilian Samaniego was expelled from the latter in 2008 due to dissatisfaction with a deal she had reached with former President Nicanor Duarte.
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Lilian Samaniego was elected first vice president of the ANR by more than two thirds of the governing board, and immediately assumed the interim presidency of the party on 16 September 2008.
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Lilian Samaniego took over in the midst of an internal crisis, after a major loss in that year's general election, where opposition candidate Fernando Lugo triumphed and ended more than 60 years of Colorado governments.
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Lilian Samaniego led her party to a resurgence in the 2010 municipal elections, leaving it well positioned to return to power in 2013 with the election of Horacio Cartes.
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Lilian Samaniego was ratified in her position as president in the internal elections of 13 March 2011, becoming the first woman to be elected to the position in the party's 124-year history.
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Lilian Samaniego was elected as alternate senator for Asuncion in 2003, and took over as titular senator in 2004.
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Lilian Samaniego is president of the body's Equity and Gender Commission.