Gabriela Montaño

Gabriela Montaño Viaña

President of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
19 January 2015
President Evo Morales
Vice President Álvaro García Linera
Personal details
Born Lilly Gabriela Montaño Viaña
(1972-12-02) December 2, 1972
Cochabamba
Nationality  Bolivia
Political party Movement for Socialism (MAS)
Spouse(s) Fabián Restivo
Education Master's Degree in Public Health[1]
Occupation Politician, physician

Lilly Gabriela Montaño Viaña (born 2 December 1975) is a Bolivian physician, politician, and former senator. She is the elected President of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly,[1] a position she accepted and will hold until 2020 while still the presidential representative of Santa Cruz de la Sierra for the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party. In 2012, Montaño was made the first female interim President of Bolivia since Lidia Gueiler Tejada for a short time.[2] Montaño is a feminist and vocal defender of the rights of the LGBT community. She has been a regular guest and speaker at forums and conferences in different parts of the world. She married Argentine citizen Fabián Restivo, with whom she has had two daughters.[3]

Biography

Lilly Gabriela Montaño Viaña was born 2 December 1972 in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba. She completed her basic studies in 1993 at the age of 18 and graduated with a degree in medicine five years later. She subsequently pursued and obtained a degree in Public Health.[4]

During the first term of Evo Morales' Presidency, Montaño was appointed the presidential representative to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, at that time the bastion of resistance to the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party to which she and Morales belonged.[5] In the Bolivian General Election of 2009, she was elected Senator for the Department of Santa Cruz for the 2010-2015 term. In 2012, in the absence of President Evo Morales, who left to appear at a meeting of the United Nations and Vice President Álvaro García Linera, departed for an official meeting in Vietnam, Montaño was named Interim President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia for five days, becoming the second woman in Bolivia's history (after Lidia Gueiler Tejada) to hold this position. She was sworn in at a ceremony held by the Bolivian Armed Forces at El Trompillo Airport in Santa Cruz.[1] 20 hours later, she entered the Palacio Quemado under escort of the Bolivian Colorados Regiment.[6]

In the General Election of 2014, Montaño was elected Deputy for the Department of Santa Cruz and in 2015 elected as President of Plurinational Legislative Assembly for the 2015-2020 term.[7] In this term, she has argued for the expansion of the legal causes for abortion.[8]

On 10 October 2017, Montaño and Alberto Gonzales, President of the Senate, met with various journalists' unions and concluded a rewrite of Article 200, a legislative action that would penalize professionals for poor performance, that guaranteed the safety of journalists from legal persecution via criminal prosecution.[9][10][11]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 "LILLY GABRIELA MONTAÑO VIAÑA". vicepresidencia.gob.bo (in Spanish). Office of the Vice President of Bolivia. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Corz, Carlos (23 September 2012). "Montaño asume la Presidencia interina de Bolivia, Evo va a la ONU y hablará del mar". La Razón (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  3. ↑ "El lado desconocido de Gabriela Montaño". eju! (in Spanish). 28 August 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Lilly Gabriela Montaño Viaña". El Diario (in Spanish). 7 August 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Gabriela Montaño: la cruceña que batalla por Evo". Erbol Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Gabriela Montaño, Presidenta de Bolivia por cinco días". bolpress (in Spanish). 24 September 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Posesionan a Gabriela Montaño como presidente de la Cámara de Diputados". Pagina Siete (in Spanish). 19 January 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Gabriela Montaño: "Al año mueren 500 mujeres por aborto. Es una hecatombe"". Pagina Siete (in Spanish). 9 April 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  9. ↑ "Bolivian lawmakers exclude journalists from legislative article penalizing poor professional practice". Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "Gremios y Legislativo excluyen a periodistas del artículo que castiga la mala praxis". Agencia de Noticias Fides (in Spanish). 10 October 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  11. ↑ Guarachi, Ángel (10 October 2017). "Legislativo ajusta texto del Código Penal y excluye a periodistas del delito de 'mala práctica profesional'". La Razon (in Spanish). La Paz. Retrieved 5 November 2017.

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