It would not be completely wrong to define Diana Conti as a
“political fighter”
, who died at the age of 67, after having been hospitalized for days due to pneumonia, which finally aggravated her underlying oncological condition.
As a political cadre, she carried out several changes that she always endured with
vehement defenses
of her new party homes, in which she was recognized for a certain bellicose courage, her good academic training, especially in judicial matters (she was a lawyer specialized in criminal law), her militancy against the last dictatorship and her activism in defense of women's rights.
He was one of those
classic militant paintings of old politics
, who did not shy away from the mud of the fiercest brawls, sometimes with a vehemence that did not pay attention to either the forms or the contents, a style that he seemed to enjoy with a defiant disdain. by those who opposed his thoughts, to which, however, he seemed to adhere with conviction and sincerity.
This way of processing, managing and exercising politics reached an exponential meaning when it ended up in Kirchnerism, to which it adhered until its last hour,
seduced by the belligerent arsenal of the force founded by Néstor Kirchner
.
Although at the dawn of Kirchnerism she knew how to have strong parliamentary crosses with Cristina, that K disposition to occupy the public scene suited this woman like a glove, trained in the most formal and serene codes of law and the areas of justice, to which who perhaps not coincidentally had arrived after a youthful militancy in the Revolutionary Workers' Party (PRT), at the time the political branch of the terrorist People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a predominantly Trotskyist militarized formation, but which also housed in those years of the effervescent seventies to the Marxist, Leninist, Guevarist and Maoist currents.
She left that time behind with her participation in the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), when it was a prestigious institute that litigated and fought with the weapons of law against dictatorial overflow.
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Diana Contí was also undersecretary of Human Rights, senator and advisor to the Judiciary.
With his leap into conventional politics, he assimilated the game of republican and democratic competition, and after having collaborated with Zaffaroni on issues of law, he joined FREPASO (Front for the Solidarity Country) which fed radicalism to the
political force that He removed Menemism from power after a decade
.
She was the first national deputy with the resounding victory of Graciela Fernández Meijide against Chiche Duhalde in 1997. She would also be a counselor of the Council of the Judiciary, a national senator and would teach university teaching as an interim adjunct professor in the chair of Elements of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure in the UBA.
In public service, she would be Undersecretary of Human Rights in Fernando de la Rúa's government with a terrible end and, like many of the members of Frepasism, after the disaster, her time of political availability would last until
the speech with progressive airs of Kirchnerism would sound. as a pleasant melody to his ears
and would revive that complaining style of his militancy in the orthodox and violent left of his young times.
See you always dear Diana.
Friend and companion.
— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) March 8, 2024
As the K administration became radicalized and proposed “let's go for everything,” Conti would become one of the
main media swords of Kirchnerism
.
She jumped without a net into the void to end up embracing like a barricade militant the deceptions of the Kirchner couple, whom she even defended from obvious acts of corruption, with notable repercussions on public opinion.
In this new identity she joined the verbal crusade against
Clarín
and its journalists.
He was so vehement at that stage of his political life that he even challenged journalists with surprising verbal outbursts, such as the defense of Joseph Stalin, the supreme head of the Soviets between 1922 and 1953, accused of massacring his opponents, who coined that phrase that remained in history:
“One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic
. ”
Conti could not be accused of lack of sincerity when one night, on a TV program, he challenged the panel that asked him with his thunderous
“I am a Stalinist… so what?”
.
Main standard-bearer of Cristina's re re, then prohibited by the Constitution after her two terms,
she called for “an eternal Cristina
. ”
So much enthusiasm led the president herself to ask “don't get carried away.”
Conti would frequently be a guest at the opposition lynching of 6, 7 8, which celebrated her vindication of Peronism in its K version, having been a textbook anti-Peronist.
Cristina Kirchner said goodbye to her on the networks: "See you always, dear Diana. Friend and companion."
A merit of Diana Conti: it is not usually a habit of the former president to transmit empathy, even with those who gave everything for her.