Myriam Bregman

Myriam Bregman (born 25 February 1972) is an Argentine lawyer, activist, and politician. Raised in a Jewish family, Bregman joined the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS), a Trotskyist Argentine party of which she is among the most prominent members, while studying for a degree in law at the University of Buenos Aires in the 1990s.

Bregman was one of the lawyers who took the case of Jorge Julio López, an eyewitness of the 1970s military dictatorship who disappeared in 2006 after testifying against Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz, who was sentenced to life imprisonment and charged with genocide accusations for the crimes he committed during the dictatorship. In 1997, Bregman founded the Professionist Center for Human Rights (CeProDH), which defends and assesses laid off and unemployed workers and intervenes against repression and impunity, and the Justicia Ya! (Justice Now) Collective, who are appellants in cases of crimes against humanity during the dictatorship's regime of state terrorism.

Bregman first ran for a seat in Congress in 2009 and for Chief of government of the City of Buenos Aires in 2011 and 2015 as part of the Workers' Left Front (comprising, among others, the PTS). From December 2017 to December 2021, she served as a deputy in the legislature for the City of Buenos Aires, where she was president of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission. She also ran as vice-presidential candidate for the Front in the 2015 Argentine general election, coming fourth. In 2021, she was again elected to the national Chamber of Deputies, this time for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. In the 2023 Argentine general election, she ran for president as head of the Workers' Left Front alliance.

Labour cases As a lawyer, Myriam Bregman represented workers in labour disputes. In 1998, she was legal counsel in a historic case in which the Zanon tile company in Neuquén was found guilty of an "offensive lockout".

Additionally, Bregman was counsel for Catalina Balaguer, a female PepsiCo worker who was terminated for her labor activism. Bregman also represented PepsiCo workers in a lawsuit over the illegal closure of the Vicente López factory on June 20, 2017. Among the named defendants was prosecutor Gastón Larramendi, who had ordered the factory's eviction a week earlier.

Cases against state repression and persecution Bregman has participated in several court cases defending activists and workers from police repression and political and trade union persecution. She is also part of Carla Lacorte's team of lawyers. Lacorte, victim of repression herself, is also a member of the CeProDH along with Bregman. Bregman also participates in the case investigation of Federal Police agent Américo Balbuena, who infiltrated social organizations to spy on them.

Cases on crimes against humanity Bregman participated among the appellants of the first trial made since the re-opening of the cases of crimes against humanity perpetrated by criminals of the Argentinian Dictatorship, that of former Buenos Aires police chief Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz, where Justicia Ya! La Plata in 2006 accused him of committing genocide. In the final stages of the trial, one of the eyewitnesses, Jorge Julio López, disappeared; afterwards, a case on his disappearance was opened and remains so. Bregman was also an appealing lawyer during the trial against Jorge “Tigre” Acosta, on the ESMA case.

Bregman intervened on the oral trials against crimes committed in the Higher School of Mechanics of the Navy (ESMA mega-case) against prefect Héctor Febrés (2007), and in the second trial against 18 genocide criminals, representing, among others, the case of Rodolfo Walsh, Raimundo Villaflor and organisations such as the Former Disappeared Detainees Association (2009–2011). She was also an appealing lawyer during the oral trial against Cristian Federico Von Wernich in La Plata (2007), accusing him of crimes against humanity committed in Campo de Mayo, the “Floreal Avellaneda” case in San Martín, Province of Buenos Aires (2009), "Seré Mansion" case (against Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata repressors in 2008), among others.

In 2008, Bregman was awarded by the Human Rights Commission of the Lawyers School of Buenos Aires. She is also among the people who founded and manage the Professionist Center for Human Rights (CeProDH). ''

Personal life Bregman is a Jewish atheist and is of German Jewish descent.

Electoral history Executive + Election Office List Votes Result . Total % . 2011Chief of Government of Buenos Aires Workers' Left Front 13,804 0.78% 10th 2015 Workers' Left Front 56,617 3.10% 5th 2015 Vice President of Argentina Workers' Left Front 812,530 3.23% 4th 2023 President of Argentina Workers' Left Front 722,061 2.70% 5th

Legislative + Election Office List District Votes Result . Total % . 2013 National Deputy Workers' Left Front 2 Buenos Aires Province 449,450 5.01% 5th 2017 City Legislator Workers' Left Front 1 City of Buenos Aires 132,161 6.28% 4th 2021 National Deputy Workers' Left Front 1 City of Buenos Aires 142,581 7.74% 4th 2025 Workers' Left Front 1 City of Buenos Aires 148,438 9.11% 3rd