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Place of Birth: La Rioja Province, Argentina
About Teresita Quintela
- Teresa Nicolasa Quintela (born 26 January 1950 in La Rioja) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician.
- She sit in the Argentine Senate representing La Rioja Province in the majority block of the Front for Victory. Quintela qualified as a social worker in 1975 from the National University of Córdoba and gained a social services license from the same university in 1983.
- She further studied management and social policy at the University of Mendoza in 1987.
- She held various social work and administrative roles in La Rioja. In 1995 Quintela was elected as a La Rioja city councillor, but soon joined the provincial government as Secretary of State for social development until 1998.
- In 2001 she was elected to the provincial legislature and in 2005 was elected a Senator.
- She is President of the Municipal Affairs Committee. Quintela's brother Ricardo Quintela is Mayor of La Rioja. In November 2009 Argentinian Legislators passed a law which would change the minimum age to be brought to trial from 18 to 14.
- She was the only one who voted against this law.
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