María Nélida Doga

María Nélida "Chichí"[1] Doga (born 1947) is an Argentine psychologist and Justicialist Party politician.

[3] A political ally of Duhalde and his wife, Hilda "Chiche" González, Doga was appointed to the Ministry of Social Development to succeed Daniel Sartori following on her recommendation Duhalde's accession to the presidency in interim fashion, in the aftermath of the 2001 political crisis.

[5] During her tenure as minister, she was noted by Argentine media as keeping a "low profile", as she did not concede any live interviews on TV and rarely addressed the public.

Following the 2005 legislative election, she followed Duhalde's supporters in breaking ranks with the government of Néstor Kirchner, forming part of the dissident Federal Peronism parliamentary bloc.

[7] In the 2011 general election, she ran for one of Buenos Aires Province's three seats in the Argentine Senate as an alternate candidate in the Popular Front list, which supported the presidential candidacy of Eduardo Duhalde and the senatorial candidacy of Chiche Duhalde.