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Jorge Esteban Sharp Fajardo (born 25 March 1985) is a Chilean lawyer and politician. He was the mayor of
Valparaíso Valparaíso () is a major city, Communes of Chile, commune, Port, seaport, and naval base facility in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. Valparaíso was originally named after Valparaíso de Arriba, in Castilla–La Mancha, Castile-La Mancha, Spain ...
from 2016 to 2024.


Early life

Born in
Punta Arenas Punta Arenas (, historically known as Sandy Point in English) is the capital List of cities in Chile, city of Chile's southernmost Regions of Chile, region, Magallanes Region, Magallanes and Antarctica Chilena. Although officially renamed as ...
,
Magallanes Region The Magallanes Region (), officially the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region () or Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctica Region in English, is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. It is the southernmost, largest, and sec ...
, he is the son of Leonor Fajardo Filipic and Jorge Sharp Galetovic. His father in 2013 was decorated as a "illustrious citizen" of the Region. He began as a student leader in Magallanes, being part of FESES' regional re-founding (1999–2000), and his school (Liceo Salesiano San José) student center's president.


Political career


University politics

In 2003, he moved to Valparaíso to study law at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso The Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso () (PUCV), also known as ''Universidad Católica de Valparaíso'' (UCV), is one of six Catholic universities in Chile and one of the two pontifical universities in the country, along with th ...
(PUCV). He was a member of the Center for Academic Legal Studies between 2005 and 2006. In 2015 he graduated as a lawyer. During his university period, Sharp was an active participant in the
2006 student protests in Chile The 2006 student protests in Chile (also known as the Penguins' Revolution or The March of the Penguins, because of the students' uniform) were a series of ongoing student voice protests carried out by high school students across Chile (from late ...
and became a founding member of Autonomous Left (IA), a left-wing organization led by then fellow law student
Gabriel Boric Gabriel Boric Font (; born 11 February 1986) is a Chilean politician and the President of Chile since 2022. He previously served two four-year terms as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, Chamber of Deputies. Boric first gained prom ...
. He ran for president of Student Center of the PUCV Law School in 2006, and the following year for president of the PUCV Student Federation (FEPUCV). Sharp did not win either election. In 2008, he was part of the PUCV Student Cordon. Also in 2008, Sharp came to FEPUCV board as vice president; he took over as president of federation in 2009.


Mayoralty of Valparaíso

In 2016, he presented himself as an Izquierda Autónoma pre-candidate for the "citizen primary" to run for Mayor of Valparaíso in that year's municipal elections of that year, which he won with 1703 votes. The same year, he was one of the leaders who, along with Boric, left Izquierda Autónoma to form Autonomist Movement. In the 23 October election, he was elected Mayor of Valparaíso with 53% of the votes over Jorge Castro, rightist candidate and militant of the
Unión Demócrata Independiente The Independent Democratic Union (''Unión Demócrata Independiente'', UDI) is a conservative and right-wing political party in Chile, founded in 1983. Its founder was the lawyer, politician, law professor and senator Jaime Guzmán, a civilian al ...
(UDI). In
2021 Chilean municipal elections Municipal elections were held in Chile on 15 and 16 May 2021, in conjunction with elections of 2021 Chilean Constitutional Convention election, members for the Constitutional Convention and 2021 Chilean regional elections, regional governors. The p ...
, he was re-elected as mayor of Valparaíso.


References


External links


Jorge Sharp Biography by CIDOB
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharp, Jorge 1985 births Living people 21st-century Chilean lawyers Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso alumni Izquierda Autónoma politicians Mayors of Valparaíso Members of the Autonomist Movement Social Convergence politicians Frente Amplio (Chile) politicians Chilean people of British descent Presidents of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso Student Federation