Cecelia Felgueras

Cecelia Felgueras
Cecelia Felgueras
; Deputy Chief of Government of Buenos Aires
	In office; 7 August 2000 – 10 December 2003
Preceded by	Enrique Olivera
Succeeded by	Jorge Telerman
; President of PAMI
	In office; 15 December 1999 – 7 August 2000
President	Fernando de la Rúa
Preceded by	Víctor Alderete
Succeeded by	Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
Personal details
Born	6 January 1962; Buenos Aires
Nationality	Argentine
Political party	Radical Civic Union; Alliance for Work, Justice and Education
Occupation	Politician

Cecelia 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]

Citations

"Citaron a declarar a ex interventores del PAMI por supuesto fraude". La Nación (in Spanish). 13 September 2001. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
"Felgueras lidió con polleras y pantalones". La Nación (in Spanish). 27 September 2000. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
"Qué es de la vida de... Cecilia Felgueras". Página/12 (in Spanish). 23 September 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

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[uno-1] "Citaron a declarar a ex interventores del PAMI por supuesto fraude". La Nación (in Spanish). 13 September 2001. Retrieved 10 September 2014.

[dos-2] "Felgueras lidió con polleras y pantalones". La Nación (in Spanish). 27 September 2000. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

[tres-3] "Qué es de la vida de... Cecilia Felgueras". Página/12 (in Spanish). 23 September 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2017.