Ana Macri, founder of the Peronist Women’s Party, died

Ana Macri, founder of the Peronist Women’s Party and former national deputy, died yesterday at the age of 105. The news was released in the last hours by sources of the Justicialist Party. Macri was one of the first female legislators elected after the approval of the female vote in 1951 and played an important role in the fight for women’s rights. The historic leader was a fundamental figure in the assembly of the register after the sanction of the law in the organization of almost 700 basic units of the Peronist Women’s Party in the interior of the country. In 1948, Macri met Eva Duarte de Perón, who appointed her as Argentine prosecretary and advisor at the Inter-American Conference of Women.In addition, between 1955 and 1958, she was a political prisoner of the ‘Liberating Revolution’, when she was arrested along with 91 Peronist legislators accused of ‘treason to the homeland’.

Source: APU Agencia Paco Urondo

Macri, one of the first women elected in Congress, held her position as a deputy for the Federal Capital from 1952 to 1955.Through her social networks, from the Justicialist Party they referred to the death of the militant and expressed: “We deeply regret the departure of Ana Macri, tireless companion of Evita, census delegate, founder of the Peronist Women’s Party and former National Deputy. QEPD”.

We deeply regret the departure of Ana Macri, Evita’s tireless companion, census delegate, founder of the Peronist Women’s Party and former National Deputy.
QEPD. pic.twitter.com/vTu5HfrxI5 — Justicialist Party (@p_justicialista)
February 4, 2022

In turn, the Evita Museum remembered Macri as “a tireless fighter, with encounters and abandonments that left deep traces and marked the development of a strong and understanding woman, who with coherence and loyalty gave her life to the national cause.” For her part, the Buenos Aires Minister of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity, Estela Díaz, wrote: “We bid farewell to dear Ana Macri, who accompanied Evita in the creation of the Peronist Women’s Party. One of the pioneers who marked paths in the political militancy of women.”

Original source in Spanish