{{short description|Argentine politician (born 1976)}} {{use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder |image = Cecilia Moreau 2022 (cropped).jpg |image_size= |name= Cecilia Moreau |order= |office= First Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies |term_start = 10 December 2023 |predecessor = Omar De Marchi |office1 = National Deputy |term_start1 = 10 December 2015 |term_end1 = |constituency1 = Buenos Aires |office2= President of the Chamber of Deputies |term_start2 = 2 August 2022 |term_end2 = 10 December 2023 |predecessor2 = Sergio Massa |successor2 = Martín Menem |office3 = Provincial Deputy of Buenos Aires |term_start3 = 10 August 2015 |term_end3 = 10 December 2015 |constituency3 = First Electoral Section |term_start4 = 10 December 2007 |term_end4 = 10 December 2011 |constituency4 = First Electoral Section |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|12|5|df=y}} |birth_place = Olivos, Argentina |profession = |party = Radical Civic Union {{small|(until 2014)}}<br />Renewal Front {{small|(2014–present)}} |other_party = United for a New Alternative {{small|(2015–2017)}}<br />Frente de Todos {{small|(2019–2023)}}<br />Union for the Homeland {{small|(since 2023)}} |alma_mater = }} '''Cecilia Moreau''' (born 5 December 1976) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy representing Buenos Aires Province since 2015, and as President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2022 to 2023. She is the first woman to hold that position. Previously, from 2007 to 2011 and again in 2015, Moreau served as a member of the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies elected in the First Electoral Section.
A longtime member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Moreau left and joined the Renewal Front in 2014. Since 2019, she has sat in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies. She is the daughter of prominent UCR leader Leopoldo Moreau, a former President of the Chamber of Deputies.
==Early life== Cecilia Moreau was born on 5 December 1976 in Olivos, a suburb in the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hcdn.gob.ar/diputados/cmoreau|work=HCDN|title=CECILIA MOREAU|access-date=18 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718063618/https://www.hcdn.gob.ar/diputados/cmoreau|url-status=live}}</ref> She is the daughter of Leopoldo Moreau, a prominent Radical Civic Union leader who served as president of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and as the UCR's presidential candidate in 2003. She has four siblings, one of which, Carmela, is also active in politics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/202011/531099-carmela-moreau-hay-una-oposicion-obstruccionista-que-quiere-desgastar.html|work=Télam|title=Carmela Moreau: "Hay una oposición obstruccionista, que quiere desgastar"|date=1 November 2020|access-date=7 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=4 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604212625/https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/202011/531099-carmela-moreau-hay-una-oposicion-obstruccionista-que-quiere-desgastar.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
Moreau became politically involved from a young age. She followed her father's footsteps in joining the UCR, and in 2001, she was appointed secretary general of the {{ill|Juventud Radical|es|Juventud Radical de Argentina}}. From 2005 to 2008, she was secretary of political action in the Radical Committee of Buenos Aires Province.<ref name=hcdn>{{cite web|url=https://www.hcdn.gob.ar/diputados/cmoreau/|work=HCDN|title=CECILIA MOREAU|access-date=7 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185658/https://www.hcdn.gob.ar/diputados/cmoreau/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Political career== Moreau was elected to the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies at the 2007 provincial elections; she ran in the UCR list in the First Electoral Section. She finished her mandated in 2011, and later served in the Provincial Chamber briefly between August and December 2015.<ref name=hcdn/>
Between 2012 and 2014, Moreau was secretary general of the Radical Civic Union committee in Buenos Aires Province.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-204416-2012-09-28.html|work=Página/12|title=De la interna a la lista de unidad|date=28 September 2012|access-date=18 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718063617/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-204416-2012-09-28.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, she left the UCR and joined the Renewal Front, led by former Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clarin.com/politica/moreau-hija-massa-cecilia-leopoldo-ucr_0_H1H76nDqwXe.html|work=Clarín|title=La hija de Moreau avisó que deja la UCR y se va con Massa|date=27 November 2014|access-date=18 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718063619/https://www.clarin.com/politica/moreau-hija-massa-cecilia-leopoldo-ucr_0_H1H76nDqwXe.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Media attention centered around the apparent split between Moreau and her father, both of whom had defected the UCR, but to different parties.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clarin.com/politica/moreau-interna-radical_0_Bk1Hwnv9vXg.html|work=Clarín|title=La familia Moreau, dividida por la interna radical|last=Duffard|first=María Eugenia|date=28 November 2014|access-date=18 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718063617/https://www.clarin.com/politica/moreau-interna-radical_0_Bk1Hwnv9vXg.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.f5diario.com.ar/como-si-fuera-un-legado-familiar-cecilia-moreau-tambien-le-dio-la-espalda-al-radicalismo/|work=F5 Diario|title=Como si fuera un legado familiar, Cecilia Moreau también le dio la espalda al radicalismo|date=27 November 2014|access-date=18 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718063619/http://www.f5diario.com.ar/como-si-fuera-un-legado-familiar-cecilia-moreau-tambien-le-dio-la-espalda-al-radicalismo/|url-status=live}}</ref>
===National Deputy=== At the 2015 general election, Moreau was the eighth candidate in the United for a New Alternative list to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in Buenos Aires; the list received 20.98% of the vote, and Moreau was elected.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ambito.com/politica/oficializan-lista-candidatos-diputados-provincia-n3896231|work=Ámbito|title=Oficializan lista de candidatos a diputados por Provincia|date=24 June 2015|access-date=18 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718063621/https://www.ambito.com/politica/oficializan-lista-candidatos-diputados-provincia-n3896231|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parlamentario.com/2015/12/29/esta-es-la-nueva-camara-de-diputados-2/|work=Parlamentario|title=Esta es la nueva Cámara de Diputados|date=29 December 2015|access-date=18 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=5 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505220656/https://www.parlamentario.com/2015/12/29/esta-es-la-nueva-camara-de-diputados-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Moreau ran again for a second term in 2019, this time as the sixth candidate in the Frente de Todos list, following the agreement between the Renewal Front and other sectors of Peronism. The list received 51.64% of the vote, and Moreau was comfortably elected.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ambito.com/politica/diputados/el-frente-todos-anoto-lista-encabezada-massa-y-copada-la-campora-n5038646|work=Ámbito|title=El Frente de Todos anotó lista de diputados encabezada por Massa y copada por La Cámpora|date=22 June 2019|access-date=18 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718063620/https://www.ambito.com/politica/diputados/el-frente-todos-anoto-lista-encabezada-massa-y-copada-la-campora-n5038646|url-status=live}}</ref> Since 2020, she has been the vice president of the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc in the Chamber, deputising for Máximo Kirchner.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/202002/430608-cecilia-moreau-juntos-por-el-cambio-tiene-algunos-actores-a-los-que-el-039gorilismo039-los-supera.html|work=Télam|title=Cecilia Moreau: "Juntos por el Cambio tiene actores a los que el gorilismo los supera"|date=9 February 2020|access-date=18 July 2021|last=Fredes|first=Leonardo|language=es|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718063617/https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/202002/430608-cecilia-moreau-juntos-por-el-cambio-tiene-algunos-actores-a-los-que-el-039gorilismo039-los-supera.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
On 2 August 2022, following the appointment of Sergio Massa as minister of economy, Moreau was elected to succeed him as president of the Chamber of Deputies. She became the first woman to ever hold the position.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/442006-quien-es-cecilia-moreau-la-nueva-presidenta-de-la-camara-de-|work=Página 12|title=Quién es Cecilia Moreau, la nueva presidenta de la Cámara de Diputados que sustituye a Massa|date=2 August 2022|access-date=3 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=2 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802202313/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/442006-quien-es-cecilia-moreau-la-nueva-presidenta-de-la-camara-de-|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition, her election marked the first time that all authorities of the Argentine Congress were women (alongside Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as president of the Senate and Claudia Ledesma Abdala as provisional president of the Senate).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newsweek.com.ar/politica/quien-es-cecilia-moreau-la-primera-presidenta-de-la-camara-de-diputados/|work=Newsweek|title=Quien es Cecilia Moreau, la primera presidenta de la Cámara de Diputados|last=Klempert|first=Rolando|date=2 August 2022|access-date=3 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=2 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802171236/https://www.newsweek.com.ar/politica/quien-es-cecilia-moreau-la-primera-presidenta-de-la-camara-de-diputados/|url-status=live}}</ref>
At the 2023 general election, she was re-elected to a third term as National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province as part of the Union for the Homeland (UP) list, where she was in 4th place. The list came first in the general election in Buenos Aires, with 43.7% of the vote, and she was easily re-elected. The UP candidate for president, Sergio Massa, was ultimately defeated by Javier Milei (LLA) in the November presidential run-off, and per convention Moreau was replaced by a deputy of Milei's party as president of the Chamber in the following legislature. On 7 December 2023, she was succeeded by Martín Menem.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/692903-martin-menem-es-el-nuevo-presidente-de-la-camara-de-diputado|work=Página 12|date=7 December 2023|access-date=8 December 2023|title=Martín Menem es el nuevo presidente de la Cámara de Diputados|language=es}}</ref>
==Personal life== Moreau was a vocal supporter of the legalisation of abortion in Argentina, and voted consistently in favour of the two Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills, in 2018 and 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/122195-el-grupo-de-l-s-sororas|work=Página/12|title=El grupo de l@s sororas|last=Carbajal|first=Mariana|date=17 June 2018|access-date=18 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718063619/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/122195-el-grupo-de-l-s-sororas|url-status=live}}</ref> During the 2020 debate in the parliamentary commission on general legislation, Moreau spoke on how she carried out a clandestine abortion when she was 16, and how the experience motivated her to vote in favour of the bill.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/202012/537535-la-diputada-moreau-conto-que-aborto-a-los-16-anos-en-el-debate-del-plenario-de-comisiones.html|work=Télam|title=La diputada Moreau contó que abortó a los 16 años, en el debate del plenario de comisiones|date=4 December 2020|access-date=18 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718063619/https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/202012/537535-la-diputada-moreau-conto-que-aborto-a-los-16-anos-en-el-debate-del-plenario-de-comisiones.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/cecilia-moreau-conto-aborto-16-anos-era-nid2530499/|work=La Nación|title=Cecilia Moreau contó que abortó a los 16 años: "Era una nena y quería tener una vida"|date=5 December 2020|access-date=18 July 2021|language=es|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718063617/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/cecilia-moreau-conto-aborto-16-anos-era-nid2530499/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Moreau was married to fellow politician Leandro Santoro, a political protegé of her father's.<ref name=cronista>{{cite web|url=https://www.cronista.com/elecciones2015/Quien-es-Leandro-Santoro-el-hiperalfonsinista-candidato-a-vice-de-Recalde-20150507-0104.html|work=El Cronista|title=Quién es Leandro Santoro, el hiperalfonsinista candidato a vice de Recalde|date=7 May 2015|access-date=14 December 2021|language=es|archive-date=14 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214051018/https://www.cronista.com/elecciones2015/Quien-es-Leandro-Santoro-el-hiperalfonsinista-candidato-a-vice-de-Recalde-20150507-0104.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=a24>{{cite web|url=https://www.a24.com/politica/quien-es-leandro-santoro-el-radical-k-que-eligio-alberto-fernandez-representar-al-gobierno-caba-n848893|work=A24|title=Quién es Leandro Santoro, el radical K que eligió Alberto Fernández para representar al Gobierno en CABA|date=7 December 2021|access-date=14 December 2021|language=es|archive-date=24 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124143447/https://www.a24.com/politica/quien-es-leandro-santoro-el-radical-k-que-eligio-alberto-fernandez-representar-al-gobierno-caba-n848893|url-status=live}}</ref> Santoro and Moreau have a daughter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.quieroamipais.org/notix/desarrollo/12314_la_mujer_del_vice_de_recalde_apoya_a_lousteau-2.htm|work=Quiero a mi País|title=La mujer del vice de Recalde apoya a Lousteau|date=11 May 2015|access-date=14 December 2021|language=es|archive-date=14 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214051321/http://www.quieroamipais.org/notix/desarrollo/12314_la_mujer_del_vice_de_recalde_apoya_a_lousteau-2.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Since 2021, Santoro has served in the Chamber of Deputies alongside both Moreaus.
==Electoral history== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;" |+ {{sronly|Electoral history of Cecilia Moreau}} ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 | Election ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 | Office ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" colspan=2 rowspan=2 | List ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 | {{abbr|2=List number|#}} ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 | District ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" colspan=3 | Votes ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 | Result ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 | {{abbr|2=Reference|Ref}}. |- ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | Total ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | % ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | {{abbr|2=Position|P}}. |- | style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | 2007 | rowspan="2" | Provincial Deputy | style="background-color:darkblue;" | | {{ill|UNA Concertation|es|Concertación para Una Nación Avanzada}} | 2 | First Electoral Section | 166,370 | 7.49% | 3rd{{efn|name=fn1|Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.}} | {{yes2|Elected}} | <ref>{{Cite web|title=Escrutinio Definitivo|url=https://www.juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar/resultados/2007sec1.pdf|website=juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar|publisher=Junta Electoral de la Provincia de Buenos Aires|access-date=4 February 2023|language=es|archive-date=28 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828212026/http://www.juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar/resultados/2007sec1.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> |- | style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | 2011 | style="background-color:{{party color|Radical Civic Union}};"| | {{ill|Union for Social Development|es|Unión para el Desarrollo Social}} | 1 alt. | First Electoral Section | 342,668 | 12.56% | 2nd{{efn|name=fn1}} | {{yes2|Elected{{efn|Took office on 10 August 2015, as a replacement for Fernando Rozas.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lapoliticaonline.com/nota/94405-cecilia-moreau-se-va-antes-de-diputados-porque-rozas-no-se-quiere-perder-15-000/|work=La Política Online|title=Cecilia Moreau se va antes de Diputados porque Rozas no se quiere perder $15.000|date=2 December 2015|access-date=4 February 2023|language=es|archive-date=5 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205022417/https://www.lapoliticaonline.com/nota/94405-cecilia-moreau-se-va-antes-de-diputados-porque-rozas-no-se-quiere-perder-15-000/|url-status=live}}</ref>}}}} | <ref>{{Cite web|title=Elecciones 2013|url=https://www.argentina.gob.ar/interior/dine/resultadosyestadisticas/2013|website=argentina.gob.ar|publisher=Dirección Nacional Electoral|access-date=4 February 2023|language=es|archive-date=4 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204225230/https://www.argentina.gob.ar/interior/dine/resultadosyestadisticas/2013|url-status=live}}</ref> |- | style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | 2015 | rowspan="3" | National Deputy | style="background-color:{{party color|United for a New Alternative}};"| | United for a New Alternative | 8 | Buenos Aires Province | 1,888,415 | 28.98% | 3rd{{efn|name=fn1}} | {{yes2|Elected}} | <ref>{{Cite web|title=Elecciones 2015|url=https://www.argentina.gob.ar/interior/dine/resultadosyestadisticas/2015|website=argentina.gob.ar|publisher=Dirección Nacional Electoral|access-date=4 February 2023|language=es|archive-date=4 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204220240/https://www.argentina.gob.ar/interior/dine/resultadosyestadisticas/2015|url-status=live}}</ref> |- | style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | 2019 | style="background-color:{{party color|Frente de Todos}};"| | Frente de Todos | 6 | Buenos Aires Province | 5,113,359 | 52.64% | 1st{{efn|name=fn1}} | {{yes2|Elected}} | <ref>{{Cite web|title=Elecciones 2019|url=https://www.argentina.gob.ar/interior/dine/resultadosyestadisticas/2019|website=argentina.gob.ar|publisher=Dirección Nacional Electoral|access-date=4 February 2023|language=es}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |- | style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | 2023 | style="background-color:{{party color|Union for the Homeland}};"| | Union for the Homeland | 4 | Buenos Aires Province | 4,094,665 | 43.71% | 1st{{efn|name=fn1}} | {{yes2|Elected}} | <ref>{{Cite web|title=Elecciones 2023|url=https://www.electoral.gob.ar/nuevo/paginas/btn/actas_esc_generales2023.php|website=electoral.gob.ar|publisher=Cámara Nacional Electoral|access-date=14 December 2023|language=es}}</ref> |- |} {{notelist}}
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==External links== {{commons}} *[https://www.diputados.gov.ar/diputados/cmoreau Profile on the official website of the Chamber of Deputies] (in Spanish) *{{twitter|ceciliamoreauok}}
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