| Romina Del Plá | |
| Term Start: | 10 December 2021 |
| Constituency: | Buenos Aires |
| Term Start1: | 10 December 2017 |
| Term End1: | 10 December 2020 |
| Constituency1: | Buenos Aires |
| Birth Date: | 1972 4, df=y |
| Party: | Workers' Party |
| Alma Mater: | University of Buenos Aires |
Romina Del Plá (born 2 April 1972) is an activist in the Workers' Party (Argentina).[1]
She was elected to the Argentine national Chamber of Deputies at the 2017 Argentine legislative election. She was elected for Buenos Aires Province as a candidate of the Workers' Left Front.[2] [3] She resigned her seat on 10 December 2020, in order to allow Juan Carlos Giordano of the Socialist Left to take her place as per the Left Front's seat rotation agreement.[4]
She was previously a history lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires.[1] Romina Del Plá has a 23-year teaching career in the La Matanza classrooms and works in the Aldo Bonzi 41st High School and in the 3-d Technical high school of San Justo.
She comes from the Trotskyist family of leaders of the Partido Obrero (PO). Her father Miguel del Plá was leader of the PO of Santa Cruz. Nora Biaggio, her mother, is a retired teacher and leader of the Teaching Tribune group. Her uncle Claudio del Plá is a current legislator of the PO in Salta. Her parents were workers: Nora was a teacher and Miguel a metallurgist, and political activists. As a child Romina moved with her family to Córdoba, it was their party decision for her parents to defend a party's activity during the dictatorship.[5]
Del Plá gained prominence in 2017 for challenging the power of Roberto Baradel in the elections for the leadership in the Buenos Aires teachers' union.[6] She has become one of the main leaders of the movement today, supporting the anti-bureaucratic opposition among teachers. From her own words "they want the workers' revolution and they also want to lead the working class in a socialist way out".[5] She supports the right of teachers to have sick leave certificates and against the reduction of the educational budget.[7] She is a General Secretary of the Educational Trade Union Suteba Matanza of Buenos Aires (SUTEBA) of the town La Matanza. Romina Del Pla as a national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires from the Left Front was supported by 1,300,000 votes throughout the country and assumed her bench in the Lower House of National Congress on December 10, 2017. Her goal as a deputy is to face the labor, retirement and educational reforms. [8]
In 2019 she was the FIT-U's candidate for vice-president, alongside Nicolás del Caño for president.
In 2021 she was elected as a national deputy for Buenos Aires Province.[9]
| Office | List | Votes | Result | . | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % | . | ||||||
| 2019 | Vice President of Argentina | Workers' Left Front | 579,228 | 2.16% | 4th | [10] | ||
| Office | List | District | Votes | Result | . | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % | . | ||||||||
| 2017 | National Deputy | Workers' Left Front | 2 | Buenos Aires Province | 497,665 | 5.34% | 4th | [11] | ||
| 2021 | Workers' Left Front | 2 | Buenos Aires Province | 609,158 | 6.82% | 4th | [12] | |||