Lily Jovanka Pérez San Martín (born May 10, 1963) is a Chilean publicist and politician. She served as a councilor for La Florida from 1992 to 1996, a deputy for District 26 from 1998 to 2006, a deputy for District 36 from 2008 to 2010, and a

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for Constituency 5 from 2010 to 2018. Furthermore, she was the president of the now-defunct

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party from 2014 to 2018.

Early life and career

Liliana Pérez was born on 10 May 1963 in

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. She is the daughter of Samuel Manuel Pérez Baeza and Liliana Beatriz San Martín Zavala. Later, she changed her legal name to Lily. She completed her primary and secondary schooling at the . She graduated as a publicist from the University of the Pacific and earned a postgraduate degree in political philosophy from Gabriela Mistral University. In her professional life, Pérez served as a member of the editorial committee of the newspaper ''

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'' from 1993 to 1996. She also contributed to ' and ''

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'' as a writer.

Political career

Councilor

In 1992, Pérez was elected councilor for La Florida. During her four-year term, together with the mayors of

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(

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) and

( Jaime Ravinet), she founded the , becoming its first vice president. In 1993, she joined the Renovación Nacional (RN) party, and became part of its political commission. She was the party's president of mayors and councilors until 1996. In 1996, she presented herself as a candidate for mayor or La Florida, but was not elected, and resigned as a councilor.

Deputy

Pérez was presented as a candidate for the

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in the 1997 parliamentary election, for District 26, corresponding to the commune of La Florida. During her tenure, she was a member of the permanent commissions of interior government, regionalization, planning and social development, housing and urban development, and family. She also participated in the investigative commission of Casas Copeva, social housing located in the

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commune supplied by the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism (Minvu) that had serious construction problems. She was reelected handily in the 2001 parliamentary election. On that occasion, she was a member of the permanent commissions of national defense, housing and urban development, foreign relations, interparliamentary affairs, and Latin American integration. She was also part of the special commission on actions by public officials in the "". In 2005, Pérez was a candidate for senator for the Santiago Oriente constituency in that year's parliamentary election, but did not win a seat. In 2006, she was elected secretary general of RN, a position she held until the end of 2008, being replaced by Bruno Baranda. On 2 October 2008, she became a deputy for District 38 for 16 months, replacing the late Pedro Álvarez-Salamanca. This time, she represented the

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. During her tenure, she participated in the permanent commission on human rights, nationality, and citizenship.

Senator

In December 2009, she was elected

on behalf of RN, for the Valparaíso Cordillera Region ( Constituency 5) with the first majority within the Coalition for Change. She was a member of the housing and urban planning commissions, and presided over the commission on human rights, nationality, and citizenship. In 2013, she became the spokesperson for presidential candidate

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. On 16 January 2014, she resigned from her membership in RN, accusing its board of directors, headed by Carlos Larraín, of "intolerance, classism, and personalism." Later that year, she joined the

political movement, and was elected president of its national board in June 2016. As a senator, she was involved in the passage of legislation relating to discrimination, such as the and the Law Against Incitement to Violence. She is a supporter of abortion on three grounds - when the mother's life is at risk, when the fetus will not survive the pregnancy, and in the case of rape.

Personal life

Pérez is married to the lawyer and has two children from her first marriage, as well as five stepdaughters. In 2010, she became the victim of a

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attack in

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, but fortunately, she escaped without serious injuries. In March 2011, she experienced an episode of viral

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, which resulted in temporary facial paralysis. She received treatment for this condition at the Clínica Alemana de Santiago.

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