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Natalia Morales also known as Natalia Andrea Morales(born in April 6, 1981) in La Quiaca, Jujuy is a Argentine politician, trade unionist, feminist and environmentalist. Serving as a left-wing provincial deputy for Jujuy since December 2017. Her election as deputy provincial was one of the highest results achieved by a leftist candidacy both in the province of Jujuy and at the national level, with 15.86% of the votes.

Biography

Growing up, Natalia Morales was born in La Quiaca, Jujuy, a border city, and attended the Normal School in Jujuy's capital to complete her primary and secondary education. Currently, she is pursuing agricultural engineering at the National University of Jujuy and started her activism in the PTS Youth during this time.

Career

She ran for mayor of San Salvador de Jujuy, the capital of the province, in 2011, and then for governor in the 2015 election. She and Betina Rivero were the only women running for the position, and they came in third with 2.84% of the votes, behind Eduardo Fellner and Gerardo Morales. In 2017, she ran for provincial deputy as part of the Left Front and Workers and her list obtained 15.86% of the votes, a historic result for the local left. She was elected for the period 2017-2021 and took office on December 10, 2017, taking an oath that covered various social and political issues, such as the rights of indigenous peoples, the memory of those who were detained and disappeared during the last military dictatorship, and the fight against the oppression of women. Her oath was criticized by journalist Benjamin Urdemales.

In April 2018, she and her partner Alejandro Vilca faced media criticism for not singing the national anthem during the opening ceremony of the Provincial Legislature. Morales defended their position, arguing that left-wing sectors are not represented by the national flag or anthem but by the international anthem of workers. She also requested that their ideals be respected, as they respected those who identified with the national anthem.

Morales worked for almost fourteen years in the Secretariat of Family Agriculture, a government agency, until she was dismissed in April 2018, during her term as a provincial deputy. She denounced the dismissal as political persecution by the government of Gerardo Morales.

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