Hilda González de Duhalde

Hilda González de Duhalde
Hilda González de Duhalde
	Chiche Duhalde in Casa Rosada, 2009
Member of the Senate; for the Buenos Aires Province
	In office; 10 December 2005 – 10 December 2011
First Lady of Argentina; interim
	In role; 2 January 2002 – 25 May 2003
President	Eduardo Duhalde
Preceded by	María Alicia Mazzarino (interim)
Succeeded by	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Member of the Chamber of Deputies; for the Buenos Aires Province
	In office; 10 December 1997 – 10 December 2005
Personal details
Born	14 October 1946 (age 78); Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spouse	Eduardo Duhalde (m. 1971)
Children	4

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Hilda Beatriz González de Duhalde, widely known as Chiche Duhalde, (born 14 October 1946) is an Argentinian 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.

Biography

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.

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