Advocate of divorce Florentina Gomez Miranda passed away

August 1, 2011

M24Digital regrets to inform the death of former MP and militant of the UCR Florentina Gomez Miranda. She passed away today being 99 years old.

Gomez Miranda served as national Member of Parliament of the Radical Civil Union (UCR) between 1983 and 1991, during the presidencies of Raul Alfonsin and Carlos Menem.

She introduced several social-changing projects such as divorce, equality between extra-marriage childs and marriage childs, the right of continue using the maiden name after marriage, and the pension to widows, divorced spouses, and non married partners.