Norma Durango

Norma Durango
National Senator
In office 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2021
Constituency	La Pampa
Vice Governor of La Pampa
In office 10 December 2011 – 10 December 2015
Governor	Óscar Jorge
Preceded by	Luis Alberto Campo
Succeeded by	Mariano Fernández
In office 10 December 2003 – 10 December 2007
Governor	Carlos Verna
Preceded by	Heriberto Mediza
Succeeded by	Luis Alberto Campo
Personal details
Born	(1952-11-20) 20 November 1952 (age 72) Doblas, La Pampa Province, Argentina
Political party	Justicialist Party
Alma mater	National University of La Pampa

Norma Haydée Durango (born 20 November 1952) is an Argentine politician who was a National Senator for La Pampa Province from 2015 to 2021. She previously served as Vice Governor of La Pampa under Governor Óscar Jorge from 2011 to 2015 and under Governor Carlos Verna from 2003 to 2007. She belongs to the Justicialist Party.

Early life and education

Norma Haydée Durango was born on 20 November 1952 in Doblas, a rural community in the Atreucó Department of La Pampa Province.^[1] She studied to be a teacher at the National University of La Pampa (UNLPam). As a student at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the UNLPam, she co-authored a bibliographical index of authors from La Pampa in 1982.^[2]

Political career

Durango was twice Vice Governor of La Pampa: first under Carlos Verna from 2003 to 2007,^[3] and then under Óscar Jorge from 2011 to 2015.^[4]

Durango was the second candidate on the Front for Victory list to the Argentine Senate alongside Daniel Lovera at the 2015 legislative election;^[5] the list won 45.85% and Durango was comfortably elected. She was sworn in on 4 December 2015.^[6] She presides the Senate commission on women.^[7]

A longstanding supporter of women's reproductive rights and the legalisation of abortion in Argentina,^[8] Durango voted in favour of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill introduced in 2018, and is a supporter of the similar bill brought forward by President Alberto Fernández in 2020.^[9][10][11]

References

1. "Doblas | Norma Durango: "Siempre es una satisfacción venir"". La Pampa Día x Día (in Spanish). 8 July 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
2. Pellegrino, Daniel (2015). "En busca de la tradición pampeana" (PDF). Jornaler@s (in Spanish). National University of Jujuy. ISSN 2362-2865. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
3. "Verna se bajó de la candidatura a gobernador de La Pampa". Página/12 (in Spanish). 4 July 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
4. "Oscar Jorge irá por la reelección en La Pampa tras la renuncia de Verna". Infobae (in Spanish). 14 July 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
5. "Ocho provincias eligirán el domingo los candidatos para renovar 24 bancas del senado nacional". Télam (in Spanish). 2 August 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
6. "Juraron 28 senadores nuevos: asumió Virginia García en remplazo de Pablo González". La Vanguardia Noticias (in Spanish). 4 December 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
7. "Aborto Legal: el proyecto fue girado a un plenario acotado de comisiones". Página/12 (in Spanish). 11 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
8. ""Todavía no pienso en una fórmula Verna-Durango"". La Reforma (in Spanish). 9 March 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
9. "Senadoras por el aborto legal ya". LatFem (in Spanish). 25 July 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
10. Rivas Molina, Federico; Centenera, Mar (9 August 2018). "Así hemos contado el 'no' del Senado al aborto legal en Argentina". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 December 2020.
11. Guglielmone, Diego (19 December 2020). "Durango, sobre el aborto legal: "El Estado debe proteger para evitar más muertes"". Télam (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2020.

External links

• Norma Durango on Twitter