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Victoria Villarruel
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Villarruel in 2024
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| Vice President of Argentina | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2023 |
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| President | Javier Milei |
| Preceded by | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
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| In office 10 December 2021 – 29 November 2023 |
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| Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
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Victoria Eugenia Villarruel
13 April 1975 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Political party | Democratic (since 2022) |
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| Awards | Friend della forze dell'Ordine (2012) |
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Victoria Eugenia Villarruel (born 13 April 1975) is an Argentine politician, lawyer, writer, and activist who has served as vice president of Argentina since 2023.
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Early life and education
Villarruel was born on 13 April 1975. Her grandfather was a historian who was employed by the Argentine Navy; according to her, he survived four guerrilla bombings. Her father was a high-ranked Argentine Army member. In 2008, she took a course in Inter-Agency Coordination and Combating Terrorism at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, a U.S. Department of Defense institution based at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.
Activism
Villarruel hosted a radio programme called Proyecto Verdad in the early 2000s. She began her political activism as part of the group of Karina Mujica, president of the association Memoria completa. Villarruel was also part of the Association of Relatives and Friends of Political Prisoners of Argentina (AFyAPPA), of which Pando was president.
In 2003, she founded the Center for Legal Studies on Terrorism and its Victims (CELTYV).
Political career
In the 2021 Argentine legislative election, Villarruel was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, a position she maintained until 2023; she was an independent politician until she joined in 2022 the conservative Democratic Party. She was also the running mate of Javier Milei in the 2023 Argentine general election as part of the La Libertad Avanza coalition, and was elected Vice President of Argentina.
Personal life
Villarruel is a traditionalist Catholic and attends the Tridentine Mass at the chapel of Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces in Buenos Aires; the chapel is operated by the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a traditionalist Catholic group which is not in full communion with the Holy See. According to Father Javier Olivera Ravasi, she is not a member of the SSPX but attends such chapel because it is the only one offering the Tridentine Mass in the area, and she also attends the mass of Paul VI elsewhere in the city.
In addition to her native Spanish, Villarruel is conversational in English and Japanese.
Electoral history
Executive
| Election | Office | List | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| Total | % | P. | ||||||
| 2023 1-R | Vice President of Argentina | La Libertad Avanza | 8,034,990 | 29.99% | 2nd | → Round 2 | ||
| 2023 2-R | 14,476,462 | 55.69% | 1st | Elected | ||||
Legislative
| Election | Office | List | No. | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| Total | % | P. | ||||||||
| 2021 | National Deputy | La Libertad Avanza | 2 | City of Buenos Aires | 313,808 | 17.04% | 3rd | Elected | ||
Publications
- Los llaman... jóvenes idealistas (They Call Them... Idealist Youth), 2010.
- Los otros muertos. Las víctimas civiles del terrorismo guerrillero de los 70 (The Other Dead: The Civilian Victims of Guerrilla Terrorism in the 1970s), 2014, co-written with Carlos Manfroni.
See also
In Spanish: Victoria Villarruel para niños
