Irís Montenegro
Irís Marina Montenegro Blandón (born 16 August 1950) is a Nicaraguan politician from Sandinista National Liberation Front.

She was born in the city of Estelí. She studied nursing at a polytechnic university in Guatemala and at the University of Rome. She studied also municipal management and business administration. As a politician, she was a councilor at the Mayor of Managua's office (1996-2000) and as president of the Nicaraguan Nursing Association (1983-1985). She is a deputy in the National Assembly of Nicaragua (since 2002), and Vice President of the National Assembly 2012-2016. She became President for a period from September 2016 to January 2017 following the death of René Núñez Téllez.

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Living people
1950 births
Presidents of the National Assembly (Nicaragua)
Sandinista National Liberation Front politicians
Women legislative speakers
21st-century Nicaraguan politicians
21st-century Nicaraguan women politicians
People from Estelí Department