Carlos Maldonado Curti
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Carlos Maldonado Curti | |
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| President of the Radical Party | |
| In office 27 August 2018 – 23 November 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Ernesto Velasco |
| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 27 March 2007 – 11 March 2010 | |
| President | Michelle Bachelet |
| Preceded by | Isidro Solís |
| Succeeded by | Felipe Bulnes |
| Undersecretary of Justice | |
| In office 11 March 2006 – 27 March 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Jorge Navarrete Poblete |
| Succeeded by | Augusto Prado Sánchez |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 July 1963[citation needed] |
| Party | Radical Party (1983–1994; 2018–2022) Radical Social Democrat Party (1994–2018) Democrats (2022–) |
| Spouse | Cecilia Cancino Reyes |
| Children | Three |
| Alma mater |
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| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Carlos Domingo Maldonado Curti (born 21 July[citation needed] 1963) is a Chilean politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Radical Party and is currently linked to Freemasonry.[1]
Maldonado was General Undersecretary of Government (2006–07) Minister of Justice (2007–10) during the first government of President Michelle Bachelet.[2][3]
He was pre-candidate of the Radical Party of Chile (PR).[4][5][6] Later, on 2 September 2022, he was suspended from the PR for having promoted the «Reject» option towards the 2022 Chilean constitutional plebiscite,[7][8][9][10] which was won by that option with a 62% of the votes.[11][12]
He spent his childhood and youth in Cerro Jiménez in Valparaíso, the son of Carmela Georgina Curti Valdivia.[2] His father, Carlos Manfredo Maldonado Rojas, a former Radical leader, retired as an employee of the Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE), the same company where his grandfather had worked as a laborer.[13]
He completed his primary and secondary education at School E-310 and the Eduardo de la Barra High School, respectively. Later, he studied law at the Law School of the University of Valparaíso,[2] beginning in 1980, and between 1994 and 1995 he completed a master's degree in law at the Graduate School of the University of Chile.[14]
In addition, he has attended various seminars, both nationally and internationally, in the areas of Justice Reform, the concept of the Rule of Law, Communications, Administration, Human Resources, Information Technologies, among other subjects.[13]
In 1994, he moved to Santiago where, together with a group of fellow lawyers, he rented an office on Amunátegui Street.[2] After participating in several Concertación governments, in 2010 Maldonado returned to work as a lawyer, dedicating himself to providing consultancy in Mexico (where he lived for six years)[15] in the development of procedural reforms in Latin America and the operation of concession-run prisons.[14]
In a presidential debate, he was asked about his fortune, estimated at 1.5 billion pesos, which he accumulated through these consultancies.[13] He currently owns two firms: Inversiones La Condesa Limitada and Servicios y Proyectos Público Privados S.A.[13]
He has been married twice. In his first marriage, contracted in 1986 with Lilian Jeanette Mendoza Tronche, he had two daughters. Later, he had a third daughter with Denisse Ester Brito Gálvez, with whom he maintained a relationship for five years. Lilian and Carlos divorced in 2014. His second and current wife, Cecilia Cancino Reyes, already had two daughters.[14]
Maldonado is a passionate fan of soccer, and a supporter of the club from his native community, Santiago Wanderers.[16]