Isabel Allende (politician) explained

María Isabel Allende
Office3:Leader of the Socialist Party of Chile
Successor3:Álvaro Elizalde
Office2:Senator for Atacama
Successor2:Yasna Provoste
Office1:Senator for Valparaíso
Office:President of the Chilean Senate
Predecessor:Jorge Pizarro
Successor:Patricio Walker
Office4:President of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies
Predecessor4:Adriana Muñoz
Successor4:Pablo Lorenzini
Office5:Member of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies
Constituency5:29th District
Predecessor5:Jaime Estévez
Successor5:Osvaldo Andrade
Term Start6:11 March 1994
Term End6:11 March 1998
Constituency6:9th District
Predecessor6:Víctor Manuel Rebolledo
Successor6:Adriana Muñoz
Birth Date:18 January 1945
Birth Place:Santiago, Chile
Party:Socialist Party of Chile
Children:2
Relatives:Allende family
Alma Mater:University of Chile
Profession:Sociologist
Website:Official website

María Isabel Allende Bussi ([1] [2],[3] [4] pronounced as /es/; born 18 January 1945) is a Chilean politician and the youngest daughter of former Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens.

A member of the Socialist Party and daughter of former president of Chile Salvador Allende and Hortensia Bussi, Allende served as a deputy from 1994 to 2010 and in March 2010 she became a Senator for the Atacama Region. On 28 February 2014, she was selected as president of the Senate, a position previously held by her father in the 1960s,[5] making her the first female president of the Senate in Chilean history.

Biography

She went to the Maisonette College, and unlike her sisters, was initially attracted to the Catholic Church and received her first communion. In 1962, at the age of 17, she began studying sociology, and joined the university's socialist brigade. Five years later she accompanied her father to the congress of the Socialist Party in Chile.

On 11 September 1973, the day of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, Isabel was the last person to enter the presidential palace. After the military began to bomb the presidential palace, and the outcome was already clear, her father ordered the women to leave.

Isabel's father Salvador Allende, the first Marxist president elected in the Americas, and sitting president at the time of the coup, killed himself rather than surrender to coup plotters led by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973. The military coup launched a bloody 17-year dictatorship.[6] Isabel obtained political asylum in Mexico, with her mother and her sister Beatriz, where she spent sixteen years in exile, before returning to Chile in 1989, in the final stretch of the military regime.

Her first marriage, with Sergio Meza, did not last for long, but they had a son, Gonzalo.[7] Gonzalo (1965-2010) was an activist in the "No" movement leading up to the 1988 plebiscite and a founder of the Party for Democracy. With her second husband, Romilio Tambutti, she has a daughter named Marcia (b. 1971).[8]

Other members of the Allende family have played important roles in Chilean politics. Her niece Maya Fernández, also a member of the Socialist Party, is Minister of Defense under President Gabriel Boric, since March 2022. Gay rights activist Alejandro Fernández Allende is her nephew.[9]

Political career

On returning to her homeland, Allende began a successful political career as a member of the Socialist Party of Chile. After Chile's return to democracy in 1990, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, serving as its President between 2003 and 2004, becoming the second woman to do so after Adriana Muñoz.

Allende, along with Soledad Alvear and several other Senators, sponsored a bill to extend voting rights to Chileans living abroad.[10] The right to vote from overseas was codified by Law No. 20.748, which allowed thousands of Chileans to vote in the 2020 national plebiscite and in presidential elections.

Among her principle successes, Allende has worked to reform Chile's divorce law; a law that allows disabled individuals to be judges and notaries; and a law permitting abortion on three grounds.[11] She has also worked for the passage of bills on gender identity, the water code, and creation of a government service for biodiversity and environmental protection.[11] She supports adhering to the Trans-Pacific partnership.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Allende. Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. 27 July 2019.
  2. 27 July 2019.
  3. Allende, Salvador . https://web.archive.org/web/20210807072602/https://www.lexico.com/definition/allende,_salvador . dead . 2021-08-07 . Lexico UK English Dictionary . Oxford University Press.
  4. Web site: Allende, Isabel. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Longman. 20 August 2019.
  5. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/isabel-allende-first-woman-chile-senate-leader Isabel Allende chosen as first woman to lead Chile's senate
  6. Web site: Santiago. Associated Press in. 28 February 2014. Isabel Allende chosen as first woman to lead Chile's senate. 11 March 2021 . . en-GB.
  7. Web site: Cotilleos de todo tipo, famosas que se han vuelto actrices porno y Mucho Más! . caras.cl . 11 September 2023.
  8. Web site: Chile's Salvador Allende - the man behind the legendh . en-NZ . Whanganui Chronicle . . Director Marcia Tambutti Allende, granddaughter of murdered Chilean president Salvador Allende tells his inside story in Beyond My Grandfather. ... His violent removal from power by Augusto Pinochet in a coup d'état on September 11, 1973, turned Allende into an international symbol of democracy and human rights. ... Tambutti, born two years before the coup . 11 September 2023.
  9. Web site: Modarelli. Alejandro. 12 July 2018 . Las caras de La Moneda. live. 18 October 2021. Página 12. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20180720072637/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/129223-las-caras-de-la-moneda . 20 July 2018.
  10. Web site: LEY 20748 REGULA EL EJERCICIO DEL SUFRAGIO DE LOS CIUDADANOS QUE SE ENCUENTRAN FUERA DEL PAÍS . Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia . 2015-05-03 . 2022-04-01. LeyChile .
  11. Web site: Mi Historia - Isabel Allende Bussi Senadora Región de Valparaíso. 2017-10-27. tayco.cl. Isabel Allende Bussi Senadora Región de Valparaíso. 2017-10-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20171028043508/http://www.isabelallendebussi.cl/seccion/2/mi-historia.html. dead.
  12. Web site: 2019-05-19. Quórum de aprobación del TPP-11 continúa generando debate: senadores de oposición recurrirán al TC para zanjar este punto. 2021-01-11. El Mostrador. es.