Liliana Negre de Alonso

Liliana Alonso (born 18 May 1954) (née Negre) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician. She was a National Senator representing San Luis Province in the Federal Commitment bloc from 2001 to 2017.

Liliana Negre de Alonso
National Senator
In office
14 March 2001 – 10 December 2017
ConstituencySan Luis
National Deputy
In office
10 December 1999 – 14 March 2001
ConstituencySan Luis
Personal details
Born (1954-05-18) 18 May 1954 (age 70)
San Luis, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party
Other political
affiliations
Federal Commitment
SpouseMario Ernesto Alonso
ProfessionLawyer

Negre graduated with a law degree at the University of Buenos Aires in 1976 and with a master's in Business Law in 1993 at the Austral University. She had a career in the judicial system and at the state prosecutor's office of San Luis, and is a prolific writer. She was candidate for national deputy in 1999.

Negre de Alonso was appointed to the Senate in March 2001 to complete the term of Alberto Rodríguez Saá and was elected to the Senate later that year, then re-elected in 2005. She is close to her fellow San Luis senator Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, opposing the kirchneristas (followers of Néstor Kirchner) of the Front for Victory. They have formed an alliance with other Peronists from the provinces (Peronismo Federal) opposed to the centralization and authoritarian style of the Kirchners and represents them as the second vice-president of the Senate since February 2008.

Negre de Alonso is a devout Roman Catholic and a member of Opus Dei. She has opposed liberalising the law on contraception and abortion.[1] She heads the Global Action Network of Legislators and Governors for Life and the Family, bringing together several anti-abortion legislators in Europe and Latin America. She voted against the same-sex marriage in 2010.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Una ley para el derecho a decidir, Página/12, 10 August 2006.
  2. ^ "Los senadores perciben mucha resistencia al matrimonio gay". La Gaceta (in Spanish). 19 June 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
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