Hilda González de Duhalde | |
Office: | National Senator |
Term Start: | 10 December 2005 |
Term End: | 10 December 2011 |
Constituency: | Buenos Aires |
Office2: | First Lady of Argentina interim |
Term Label2: | In role |
Term Start2: | 2 January 2002 |
Term End2: | 25 May 2003 |
President2: | Eduardo Duhalde |
Predecessor2: | María Alicia Mazzarino (interim) |
Successor2: | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
Office3: | Second Lady of Argentina |
Term Start3: | 8 July 1989 |
Term End3: | 10 December 1991 |
Vicepresident3: | Eduardo Duhalde |
Predecessor3: | Fanny Mónica Munté |
Successor3: | María Zapatero |
Office4: | National Deputy |
Term Start4: | 10 December 1997 |
Term End4: | 10 December 2005 |
Constituency4: | Buenos Aires |
Birth Date: | 14 October 1946 |
Birth Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Party: | Justicialist Party |
Children: | 5[1] |
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.
González de Duhalde was born in Lomas de Zamora, 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 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 Peronists Néstor Kirchner. However the official PJ candidate in Buenos Aires Province district for the 2005 senatorial elections, Hilda Duhalde came second to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was to become President of Argentina two years later.