Lily Pérez

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Lily Pérez
Lily Pérez San Martín.jpg
Member of the Senate of Chile
In office
11 March 2010 – 11 March 2018
Preceded bySergio Romero Pizarro
Succeeded byConstituency dissolved
ConstituencyConstituency 5
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile
In office
2 October 2008 – 11 March 2010
Preceded by [es]
Succeeded by [es]
ConstituencyDistrict 38
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile
In office
11 March 1998 – 11 March 2006
Preceded byMariana Aylwin
Succeeded by [es]
ConstituencyDistrict 26
Councilor of La Florida
In office
26 September 1992 – 6 December 1996
Personal details
Born
Lilia Jovanka Pérez San Martín

(1963-05-10) 10 May 1963 (age 58)
Santiago, Chile
Political party
Spouse(s) [es]
Children2
Education
OccupationPublicist, politician

Lily Jovanka Pérez San Martín (born 10 May 1963) is a Chilean publicist and politician.

She served a councilor for La Florida from 1992 to 1996, a national deputy for District 26 from 1998 to 2006, a deputy for District 36 from 2008 to 2010, and a senator for Constituency 5 from 2010 to 2018. In addition, from 2014 to 2018 she was the president of the now-defunct Amplitude party.

Biography[]

Lilia Pérez was born in Santiago on 10 May 1963, the daughter of Samuel Manuel Pérez Baeza and Liliana Beatriz San Martín Zavala.[1] She later changed her legal name to Lily.[2]

She completed her primary and secondary schooling at the  [es]. She graduated as a publicist from the University of the Pacific, and earned a postgraduate degree in political philosophy at Gabriela Mistral University.[1]

She is married to the lawyer  [es].[3] She has two children from her first marriage and five stepdaughters.

In the workplace, from 1993 to 1996, Pérez served as a member of the editorial committee of the newspaper La Nación. She also wrote for  [es] and La Tercera.[1]

She was the victim of a Neo-Nazi attack in Viña del Mar in 2010, escaping without serious injuries.[4]

In March 2011, she suffered an attack of viral trigeminal neuralgia, which caused temporary facial paralysis. She received treatment at the Clínica Alemana de Santiago.[3]

Political career[]

Councilor[]

In 1992, Pérez was elected councilor for La Florida. During her four-year term, together with the mayors of Las Condes (Joaquín Lavín) and Santiago (Jaime Ravinet), she founded the  [es], becoming its first vice president. In 1993, she joined the Renovación Nacional (RN) party, and became part of its political commission. She was the party's president of mayors and councilors until 1996. In 1996, she presented herself as a candidate for mayor or La Florida, but was not elected, and resigned as a councilor.[1]

Deputy[]

Pérez was presented as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies in the 1997 parliamentary election, for District 26, corresponding to the commune of La Florida. During her tenure, she was a member of the permanent commissions of interior government, regionalization, planning and social development, housing and urban development, and family. She also participated in the investigative commission of Casas Copeva, social housing located in the Puente Alto commune supplied by the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism (Minvu) that had serious construction problems.[1]

She was reelected handily in the 2001 parliamentary election. On that occasion, she was a member of the permanent commissions of national defense, housing and urban development, foreign relations, interparliamentary affairs, and Latin American integration. She was also part of the special commission on actions by public officials in the " [es]".[1]

In 2005, Pérez was a candidate for senator for the Santiago Oriente constituency in that year's parliamentary election, but did not win a seat. In 2006, she was elected secretary general of RN, a position she held until the end of 2008, being replaced by Bruno Baranda.

On 2 October 2008, she became a deputy for District 38 for 16 months, replacing the late . This time, she represented the Maule Region. During her tenure, she participated in the permanent commission on human rights, nationality, and citizenship.[1]

Senator[]

Pérez, as spokesperson for Evelyn Matthei's campaign, together with Francisco Chahuán in 2013

In December 2009, she was elected senator on behalf of RN, for the Valparaíso Cordillera Region (Constituency 5) with the first majority within the Coalition for Change.[5] She was a member of the housing and urban planning commissions, and presided over the commission on human rights, nationality, and citizenship.[1]

In 2013, she became the spokesperson for presidential candidate Evelyn Matthei.[6]

On 16 January 2014, she resigned from her membership in RN, accusing its board of directors, headed by Carlos Larraín, of "intolerance, classism, and personalism."[7][8] Later that year, she joined the Amplitude political movement, and was elected president of its national board in June 2016.[1]

As a senator, she was involved in the passage of legislation relating to discrimination, such as the  [es] and the Law Against Incitement to Violence.[9][10] She is a supporter of abortion on three grounds - when the mother's life is at risk, when the fetus will not survive the pregnancy, and in the case of rape.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Lily Jovanka Pérez San Martín" (in Spanish). Library of Congress of Chile. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Lily Pérez, diputada: No descarto dejar la política" [Lily Pérez, Deputy: I Do Not Rule Out Leaving Politics]. El Mercurio Revista Ya (in Spanish). 11 November 2003. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b Toro, Ivonne; Chapochnick, Michelle (20 March 2011). "El complejo momento de Lily Pérez" [The Complex Moment of Lily Pérez]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  4. ^ Sandoval, Gabriela (21 June 2010). "Condenan a neonazi que amenazó a senadora Lily Pérez" [Neo-Nazo Who Threatened Senator Lily Pérez Convicted]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Minuto a minuto:Tercer cómputo arroja Piñera 44,03%, Frei 29,62%, MEO 20,12% y Arrate 6,21%". La Tercera (in Spanish). 13 December 2009. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Matthei anunció a Lily Pérez como vocera de su campaña" [Matthei Announces Lily Pérez as Her Campaign's Spokesperson]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). UPI Chile. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  7. ^ Rivas Arenas, Claudia (16 January 2014). "Lily Pérez renuncia a RN en antesala del Consejo Nacional y continúa desangramiento en la tienda de Antonio Varas" [Lily Pérez Resigns From RN in the Antechamber of the National Council and Bleeding Continues in Antonio Varas' Shop]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  8. ^ Romero, María Cristina (16 January 2014). "Lily Pérez deja RN acusando 'intolerancia, clasismo y personalismo'" [Lily Pérez Leaves RN Alleging "Intolerance, Classism, and Personalism"]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Santiago. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  9. ^ "Lily Pérez (RN): 'La Ley Antidiscriminación es para proteger a las grandes mayorías'" [Lily Pérez (RN): "The Anti-Discrimination Law is to Protect the Great Majority"]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). 29 March 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Boletín N° 11.969-07" (in Spanish). Senate of Chile. 18 May 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  11. ^ "Lily Perez tras votación por despenalización del aborto: 'Quiero defender lo que sentimos las mujeres y que no decida el Estado por nosotras'" [Lily Perez After Voting for the Decriminalization of Abortion: "I Want to Defend What Women Feel and That the State Does Not Decide For Us"]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). 19 July 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2021.

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