Elected Office
In 2006 Victoria Donda was elected a councilmember in the municipality of Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province.
In 2007 she was elected, as a member of the Front for Victory front on the Popular and Social Encounter list, to Argentina's Chamber of Deputies (Argentina's lower house of Congress), with her term beginning in December 2007.
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