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5 unusual facts about Senate of Chile


José Ignacio Cienfuegos

He was elected Senator for Concepción on 1831, and again became President of the Conservative Senate of Chile between 1831 and 1834.

He was a member and President of the Conservative Senate of Chile between 1818 and 1820.

On March, 1814, Cienfuegos was elected titular member of the Consultive Senate of Chile.

Pedro de Vivar

On October 31, 1812, he was elected the first President of the Consultive Senate of Chile, and remained as such until the closing of the sessions on January, 1814, when the Spanish "reconquista" dissolved the domestic institutions.

Senate of Chile

The Senate sessions at the new (1990) National Congress located in the port city of Valparaíso that replaced the old National Congress located in downtown Santiago, the nation's capital.


Ricardo Lagos Weber

With the popularity of the Bachelet administration at a low, and the Concertación's support suffering, Lagos Weber announced his resignation on December 6, 2007, to make his candidacy for the Senate of Chile for the district of the Valparaíso Region in the December 2008 election.

Sergio Onofre Jarpa

Elected to the Senate of Chile in the 1973 election, Jarpa became a diplomat following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, serving as a delegate to the United Nations and before becoming ambassador to Colombia (1976-1978) and then Argentina (1978-1983).

WikiLosRíos

WikiLosRios was started in 2007 by Senator Andrés Allamand who currently is the main sponsor of the website.


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