Sara Concha Smith (born 9 September 1995) is a Chilean politician who serves as deputy representing

Ñuble Region The Ñuble Region (, ) officially the Region of Ñuble (), is — since 5 September 2018 – one of Chile's sixteen regions of Chile, regions. It spans an area of , making it the smallest region in Chile in terms of area, and is administratively ...

. She is a

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and has repeatedly marched in demonstrations against abortion and

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, wearing the movement's iconic light blue scarf and supporting conscientious objection for healthcare professionals who refuse to perform abortions. She also opposes

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Biography

She was born in

Chillán Chillán () is the capital List of cities in Chile, city of Ñuble Region, Diguillín Province, Chile, located about south of the country's capital, Santiago, near the center of the country. It has been the capital of the new Ñuble Region since ...

on September 9, 1995, into an

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family. Concha completed her primary education at Colliguay and Quinchamalí schools in her hometown. Then she completed the high school at the Darío Salas Comprehensive School, graduating in 2013. She earned her technical secretarial degree from this last institution in 2014. She initially completed his higher education studies in the area of

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at the

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, and then moved to the University of Alba, where continued studying the same subject. She was elected deputy when she was in her fourth academic year at the university.

Political career

In January 2020, she was founding member of the

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(PCC). Then she ran as a candidate for the

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(FSC) coalition in the May 2021 Constitutional Convention elections for the

. She obtained 2.239 votes, equivalent to 1.43% of the total valid votes, and was not elected. Concha had a successful second chance in the November parliamentary elections, being elected with 5.303 votes, corresponding to 3.15% of the total validly cast votes, being —at 26 years old— one of the youngest parliamentarians to be elected in that electoral process and the first from her party. Thereby she represented

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and its localities as Bulnes, her hometown Chillán,

Chillán Viejo Chillán Viejo is a city and commune ( Spanish: ''comuna'') in the Diguillín Province of Chile Region of Ñuble According to the 2002 census, the population of the commune was 22,084 and it has an area of . History Originally, Chillán Viejo ...

Cobquecura Cobquecura is a commune in the Region of Ñuble (Spanish: ''comuna'') in the Province of Itata Chile's Region of Ñuble. The town is located on the northwest Pacific coast of the Itata Province about southwest of the national capital of Sant ...

, San Carlos,

San Fabián San Fabián is the easternmost of 21 communes in the Punilla Province of central Chile's. Ñuble Region. The capital is the town of San Fabián de Alico. The commune spans an area of . Administration As a commune, San Fabián is administere ...

Ñiquén Ñiquén is a commune of the Punilla Province, located in the north of the Ñuble Region of Chile. Geographically, it is delimited by the Perquilauquén River to the north and the Ñiquén River in the south. Its boundary to the north is the com ...

Ránquil Ránquil is a Chilean Communes of Chile, commune in Itata Province, Ñuble Region. The communal Capital (political), capital is the town of Ránquil. Demographics According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute (Chile), Nation ...

, among others. Following the dissolution of the PCC, the representative was scheduled to join the Republican Party (PRCh) caucus, but on December 28, 2021, she declined due to the controversy generated by the misogynistic remarks of PRCh representative-elect Johannes Kaiser. Thus, Concha joined the National Renewal (RN) caucus at the beginning of the parliamentary term. She took office on March 11, 2022, joining the permanent committees on Education and Family Affairs. In November 2022, she announced her departure from the RN party to join the Christian Social Party, the successor to the PCC.

References

External links

BCN Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Concha, Sara 1995 births Living people University of Bío-Bío alumni University of the Alba alumni Deputies of the LVI Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile People from Chillán Chilean anti-abortion activists