Jacqueline van Rysselberghe

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Jacqueline van Rysselberghe
van Rysselberghe in 2014.
President of Independent Democratic Union
Incumbent
Assumed office January 7, 2015
Preceded by	Hernán Larraín
Senator of the Republic Circumscription 12, Biobío Costa
Incumbent
Assumed office March 11, 2014
Preceded by	Hosain Sabag Castillo
Intendent of the Biobío Region
In office March 11, 2010 – April 3, 2011
Preceded by	Jaime Tohá González
Succeeded by	Víctor Lobos del Fierro
Mayor of Concepción
In office December 6, 2000 – March 10, 2010
Preceded by	Ariel Ulloa Azócar
Succeeded by	Patricio Kuhn Artigues

Jacqueline van Rysselberghe Herrera (Dutch pronunciation: [van-reeselbèrge]; born February 3, 1965) is a Chilean surgeon and politician. She is a member of the right-wing party Independent Democratic Union (UDI) and National Senator since 2014.^[1][2]

She was mayor of Concepción from 2000 until her resignation in March 2010 to take the office of Intendant of the Biobío Region. Previously, she had been a city council member since 1992.^[3] On April 3, 2011 she resigned as Intendant.

Family[]

Her surname comes from Flanders, Belgium.^[4] Her grandfather was François van Rysselberghe. Her great grandfather was Max van Rysselberghe, an engineer who left Belgium when he was about 20 years old on what was originally planned to be a six-month-long scientific expedition to Antarctica. The expedition lasted two years. Reports of her connection to the Pierre Van Rysselberghe dynasty are, at this point, unverified. During the first year, plans to return to Europe were abandoned when the ice in the waterways failed to thaw during the summer. In Belgium, Max met Isabel Martin, the daughter of Valentin Martin, Chilean Minister of Public Works, who at that time had escaped to Belgium after the coup in Chile. Max and Isabel were married in Europe, and in 1905 left for Chile. This couple had four children, Lydia, Yvonne, and Henry, the grandfather of Jacqueline and Daniel.^[3]

Controversy[]

On January 23, 2017 an investigative report published by the news agency Ciper Chile disclosed a series of email exchanges which had happened in 2014 between Jacqueline van Rysselberghe and Luis Felipe Moncada, President of ASIPES (Fishing Industry Association of the Bío Bío Region) while she was presiding the Senate Fishing Committee. That committee was discussing a law that would benefit smaller, artisan fishermen so it was opposed by ASIPES. In those emails, Moncada gave explicit instructions to the Senator on how to act in the committee, including clauses to put in the law. Former assistant to the Senator Joel Chávez declared to prosecutors on August 4, 2016 that van Rysselberghe had been receiving monies from ASIPES since the municipal elections of 2000,^[5] when she was first elected Mayor of Concepción. The Senator confirmed the existence of the email exchanges but declared "it had not influenced legislative work."^[6]

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