After a year of controversy, there is a new Queen of the Harvest in Mendoza

Not even the change of era regarding beauty pageants could face the tradition of the

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After a year of conflict that the Supreme Court of Mendoza ended, she was elected the new sovereign.

With 79 votes, on the night of last Saturday, the representative of the municipality of La Paz,

was elected .

And the viceroy was Gemina Navarro, from Tupungato, with 35 votes.

Ana Laura is 22 years old, studies oenology, her grandparents were vintners and she produces her own homemade wine.

Her enthusiasm for being her queen led her to visit her neighbors door to door to convince them that she was going to be the best representative of her.

Ana Laura Verde, from La Paz, is the new National Queen of the Harvest and Gemina Navarro de Tupungato National Vice Queen.

Photo Ignacio Blanco / Los Andes

The voting system was electronic and those attending the central party with ID numbers ending in 8 were enabled. At the entrance to the Frank Romero Day Greek theater there were three computers with photos of the 18 candidates and the municipality they represented.

300 people voted.

Ana Laura represented the Defensores del Este Club, in the furthest north of Mendoza, La Paz, on the border with San Luis.

She is the

the Harvest Festival.

Election of the Queen of the Harvest at the Greek Theater Frank Romero Day full of spectators.

Photo Orlando Pelichotti / Los Andes

The new queen's family has a winemaking tradition.

Her great-grandparents were vintners and she studies Oenology, and produces homemade wine.

“This dream is for all of us, I never imagined that I would have to bring the second crown to my department.

I am

, ”said Ana Laura, in her first words to the public of the Greek theater of the General San Martín park, in the city of Mendoza.

Ana Laura Verde and Gemina Navarro received the press at the classic royal breakfast.

Photo Ignacio Blanco / Los Andes

The controversy

The queens of the Harvest went to Justice to defend the contest.

And the Justice ended up giving them the reason: the Supreme Court of Mendoza ruled last January that

and coronation of the Queen of the Harvest in that district is unconstitutional.

Mendoza spent more than a year discussing the future of the election of the Queen of the Harvest of Guaymallén, the most populous municipality in Greater Mendoza.

Harvest 2023 Greek Theater Frank Romero DayAna Laura Verde, from La Paz, is the new National Queen of the Harvest and Gemina Navarro from Tupungato National VirreinaPhoto: Ignacio Blanco / Los Andes

In 2021, the Guaymallén Deliberative Council sanctioned ordinance 9,196 that prohibited the election of the departmental queen.

But the Commission of National Queens of the Harvest (Corenave) and the Commission of Queens of Guaymallén (Coreguay) filed an action of unconstitutionality in Justice.

The resistance of the queens of mandate served, as former sovereigns like to call themselves, generated

for a reason: "The freedom to decide as a woman if they want to participate in the departmental queens contest."

The Argentine wine capital was left almost alone in its position to continue with the election of queens of culture and tourism.

Its neighbor San Juan eliminated the contest at the Fiesta del Sol 2023, held in February.

The show

The Juglares de Vendimia show, a hymn to nature, is presented over three nights and is attended by some 60,000 people.

Saturday was the queen's coronation.

This Sunday the second night, Soledad Pastorutti will perform and the closing, on Monday, will be for Lali Esposito, after her powerful show on the Vélez Sarsfield court.

The election of the new Queen of the Harvest occurred after the controversy that reached the Mendoza Court.

Photo Orlando Pelichotti / Los Andes

The narration of the history of Juglares de Vendimia is given by the murga La Buena Moza, the Mendoza group that together with the orchestra and the singers, were the most praised of the first presentation.

First-time director Franco Agüero and screenwriter Jorgelina Flores received criticism for moments of empty sets, little connection between frame and frame, and lackluster set design.

But they were right in the bet on a short film about San Martín, in a comedy show with other soldiers and shown on a central screen, where the Liberator demanded more federalism: support from Buenos Aires to grow and export Mendoza wines to the world.

Mendoza.

Correspondent

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