Lily Pérez
Lily Jovanka Pérez San Martín (born May 10, 1963) is a Chilean publicist and politician. She served as a councilor for La Florida from 1992 to 1996, a 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. Furthermore, she was the president of the now-defunct Amplitude party from 2014 to 2018.
Lily Pérez | |
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| Member of the Senate of Chile | |
| In office 11 March 2010 – 11 March 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Sergio Romero Pizarro |
| Succeeded by | Constituency dissolved |
| Constituency | Constituency 5 |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile | |
| In office 2 October 2008 – 11 March 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Pedro Álvarez-Salamanca |
| Succeeded by | Pedro Álvarez-Salamanca Ramírez |
| Constituency | District 38 |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile | |
| In office 11 March 1998 – 11 March 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Mariana Aylwin |
| Succeeded by | Gonzalo Duarte |
| Constituency | District 26 |
| Councilor of La Florida | |
| In office 26 September 1992 – 6 December 1996 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lilia Jovanka Pérez San Martín 10 May 1963 Santiago, Chile |
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| Spouse | Miguel Bauzá |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Publicist, politician |
Early life and career
Liliana Pérez was born on 10 May 1963 in Santiago. She is the daughter of Samuel Manuel Pérez Baeza and Liliana Beatriz San Martín Zavala.[1] Later, she changed her legal name to Lily.[2] She completed her primary and secondary schooling at the Hebrew Institute. She graduated as a publicist from the University of the Pacific and earned a postgraduate degree in political philosophy from Gabriela Mistral University.[1]
In her professional life, Pérez served as a member of the editorial committee of the newspaper La Nación from 1993 to 1996. She also contributed to La Época and La Tercera as a writer.[1]
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 Chilean Association of Municipalities, 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 "Matute Johns Case".[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 Pedro Álvarez-Salamanca. This time, she represented the Maule Region. During her tenure, she participated in the permanent commission on human rights, nationality, and citizenship.[1]
Senator
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.[3] 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.[4]
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."[5][6] 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 Zamudio Law and the Law Against Incitement to Violence.[7][8] 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.[9]
Personal life
Pérez is married to the lawyer Miguel Bauzá[10] and has two children from her first marriage, as well as five stepdaughters. In 2010, she became the victim of a Neo-Nazi attack in Viña del Mar, but fortunately, she escaped without serious injuries.[11] In March 2011, she experienced an episode of viral trigeminal neuralgia, which resulted in temporary facial paralysis. She received treatment for this condition at the Clínica Alemana de Santiago.[10]
References
- "Lily Jovanka Pérez San Martín" (in Spanish). Library of Congress of Chile. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- "Boletín N° 11.969-07" (in Spanish). Senate of Chile. 18 May 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
External links
- Lily Pérez on Twitter
- This article incorporates text from the Library of Congress of Chile available under the CC BY 3.0 CL license.
