Marisol Turres
Chilean politician (born 1964)
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Marisol Turres Figueroa (born 13 July 1964) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.[1]
Marisol Turres | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 March 2006 – 11 March 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Carlos Kuschel |
| Succeeded by | District dissolved |
| Constituency | 57th District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 July 1964 |
| Party | Independent Democratic Union (UDI) |
| Children | Four |
| Education | Liceo 7 Luisa Saavedra de González |
| Occupation | Politician |
Biography
Turres was born in Valparaíso on 13 July 1964.[2] She is the daughter of Jorge Armando Turres Mery and Lucy Eliana Figueroa López.[2]
She was married to Marcos Eliseo Velásquez Macías, former councillor of the Municipality of Puerto Montt and former Regional Ministerial Secretary of Justice of the Los Lagos Region during the first government of President Sebastián Piñera.[2] She is the mother of four children.[2]
Professional career
She completed her primary education at the Religiosas Carmelitas school in San Felipe and her secondary studies at Colegio San Felipe Benicio in Coyhaique and Liceo de Niñas No. 7 in Providencia.[2]
She pursued higher education at the School of Law of the University of Chile, obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Legal and Social Sciences with the thesis titled "Medidas constitucionales de protección extraordinaria del estado a través de las actas de sesiones del Congreso Nacional, Senado 1930".[2] She was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Chile on 17 October 1994.[2]
Professionally, she has worked in private legal practice.[2]
Political career
She is a member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) and served as district president of the party in District No. 57, corresponding to the communes of Calbuco, Cochamó, Maullín and Puerto Montt.[2]
In the 2001 parliamentary elections, she ran as a candidate for deputy in District No. 57 but was not elected.[2] In the 2005 elections, she was elected deputy for the same district with the highest vote share, obtaining 22,614 votes, equivalent to 26.66% of the validly cast ballots.[2]