Cecilia Felgueras Explained

Cecilia Felgueras
Office:Deputy Chief of Government of Buenos Aires
Term Start:7 August 2000
Term End:10 December 2003
Predecessor:Enrique Olivera
Successor:Jorge Telerman
Office2:President of PAMI
Term Start2:15 December 1999
Term End2:7 August 2000
Successor2:Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
President2:Fernando de la Rúa
Birth Date:6 January 1962
Birth Place:Buenos Aires, Argentina
Party:Radical Civic Union
Alliance for Work, Justice and Education
Occupation:Politician

Cecilia Felgueras (born 6 January 1962) is an Argentine politician. She was the comptroller of PAMI during the Presidency of Fernando de la Rúa but would lose the position because of prosecution over alleged corruption.[1] She was then briefly the Deputy Chief of Government of Buenos Aires in Aníbal Ibarra's first term but was removed from this position as well. She was the first woman to hold that position. She has a degree in history.[2]

Career

On 15 December 1999, she was named President of PAMI by President Fernando de la Rúa. The next year, she and other former PAMI heads Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Daniel Tonietto before a court because of a complaint from the Argentine Federation of Chambers of Pharmacy (FACAF) accusing the three politicians of favoritism towards Farmacéuticos Argentinos SA (FASA) for the acquisition of influenza vaccines. Also among the complaints was an accusation that PAMI paid the FASA an unregistered sum of 150,000 pesos.[1]

In 2000, Felgueras became the first woman to head the government of the City of Buenos Aires with her election on 17 August. The next month, she met and greeted Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the King of Saudi Arabia, and gave him the keys to the city.[2] Felgueras's friendship with Ibarra collapsed on 24 January 2001. He criticized the city's lax response to a storm that had recently struck the city, in whose aftermath only a few members of the city's leadership arrived for their jobs.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: Citaron a declarar a ex interventores del PAMI por supuesto fraude. 10 September 2014. La Nación. 13 September 2001. es. 23 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141023161631/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/335008-citaron-a-declarar-a-ex-interventores-del-pami-por-supuesto-fraude. dead.
  2. News: Felgueras lidió con polleras y pantalones. 28 November 2017. La Nación. 27 September 2000. es. 9 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161109085206/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/34622-felgueras-lidio-con-polleras-y-pantalones. dead.
  3. News: Qué es de la vida de... Cecilia Felgueras. 28 November 2017. Página/12. 23 September 2008. es.