Victoria Villarruel

Victoria Villarruel
Villarruel in 2024
30th Vice President of Argentina
Assumed office
10 December 2023
PresidentJavier Milei
Preceded byCristina Fernández de Kirchner
National Deputy
In office
10 December 2021 – 29 November 2023
ConstituencyCity of Buenos Aires
Personal details
Born
Victoria Eugenia Villarruel

(1975-04-13) 13 April 1975 (age 49)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political partyDemocratic (since 2022)
Other political
affiliations
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Lawyer
  • politician
  • writer
  • activist
AwardsFriend 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. Described as a conservative politician, she is the founder of the civil association Centro de Estudios Legales sobre el Terrorismo y sus Víctimas (transl. Center for Legal Studies on Terrorism and its Victims), which she has chaired since its inception. She was a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies from 2021 to 2023. Villarruel belongs to the La Libertad Avanza political coalition. She has been accused of Argentine state terrorism denial by several media outlets and human rights organisations. Villarruel denies such accusations, maintaining that she does not support the National Reorganization Process.