Ena Anglein von Baer Jahn (born 28 November 1974 in

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) is a

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and former senator. In December 2009, von Baer lost a very tight race for a seat in the

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. In March 2010 she became Minister Secretary-General of Government. In July 2011 she was designated senator, replacing

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, who left the senate to become Minister of Economy. Prior to her work in the government, von Baer was a

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and

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. She also worked as a legislative advisor, especially in the subject of automatic electoral enrollment and voluntary vote. During the same time, she was a professor at the Faculty of Government at the University for Development and a panelist on a program of

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, ''Estado Nacional''.

Political career

On 9 February 2010, President Piñera named von Baer as Minister Secretary-General of Government. She took office on 11 March 2010. At the president's request, she resigned in July, 2011. A few days later, she was designated as senator. In 2011 von Baer was used as an example of someone in the government with family members who have acquired the patents for crops and will benefit from the privatisation of seed. For the 2013 parliamentary election she first intended run as senator for the same district she was representing -Santiago Oriente. However the

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(UDI) assigned instead Laurence Golborne as their candidate there. Von Baer was however allowed a slot by UDI to run for Circunscripción Nº 16,

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, where she was actually elected. Her campaign was financed by SOQUIMICH and was actually the parliament election campaign that spent most money per vote obtained in that election in the whole of Chile.

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