González de Duhalde was born in
Lomas de Zamora,
Buenos Aires Province, and studied to become a teacher. She has five children with her husband. She assisted her husband in his political career and took on several public positions in family and women's policy. In 1997 Duhalde was elected a
National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province, serving again between 2003 and 2005. During the
interim Presidency of her husband, she acted as Minister of Social Welfare and ran the country's food aid programme, a key role in the aftermath of the
country's economic crisis. A member of the
Justicialist Party (PJ), Duhalde has nevertheless opposed the government of fellow
Peronists Néstor Kirchner. However the official
PJ candidate in
Buenos Aires Province district for the
2005 senatorial elections, Hilda Duhalde came second to
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was to become President of Argentina two years later. ==References==