Delia Parodi

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Delia Delfina Degliuomini de Parodi (d. 13 May 1991) was an Argentine politician who held high rank within the Female Peronist Party. She was a close associate of Eva Perón, the president and founder of the Peronist Women's Party [1], and led the party after Perón's death in 1952.

In 1951 Parodi was elected as a Deputy for Buenos Aires and became one of the first 22 women to serve in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and the first to speak. She served as the first woman vice-president of the Chamber from 1953. In 1955 she was imprisoned as part of the coup against Perón, and was freed in 1958, for a time living in exile in Uruguay.

In 2003 a conference room of the Chamber of Deputies was named in honour of Delia Parodi.