Aracely Leuquén
Official portrait, 2018
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile
In office
11 March 2018  11 March 2022
ConstituencyDistrict 27 of the Aysén
Member of the Council of Coyhaique
In office
6 December 2008  6 December 2016
Personal details
Born
Aracely Andrea Leuquén Uribe

(1980-11-24) 24 November 1980
Coyhaique, Chile
Political partyNational Renewal (1998–present)
Other political
affiliations
Republican Action[1]
Alma materInstituto Nacional de Capacitación Profesional
OccupationPolitician

Aracely Andrea Leuquén Uribe (born 24 November 1980) is a Chilean politician. She is a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile from the National Renewal Party.[2] A traditionalist conservative, she opposes same-sex marriage and abortion.[3] When she took office on March 11, 2018, she became one of the first two Mapuche women elected to the Chilean Congress, together with her Socialist counterpart Emilia Nuyado.[4] She did not run for re-election in 2021.[5]

References

  1. "Un nuevo diputado para Kast". El Mostrador (in European Spanish). 2019-04-26. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  2. Chile, BCN Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de (2020). "Aracely Andrea Leuquén Uribe. Reseñas biográficas parlamentarias". bcn.cl. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  3. Valenzuela, Paula (2017-12-22). "Aracely Leuquén: "En Aysén habrá un fuerte movimiento político y social"". La Tercera. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  4. "Día histórico en el Congreso: asumen las primeras dos diputadas mapuche". La Tercera (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  5. "Aracely Leuquén, la controvertida RN que deja el Congreso tras enfrentar un proceso judicial y un cáncer". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-08-16.
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