Isabel Allende (politician)

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María Isabel Allende Bussi (US: , UK: , Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ; born 18 January 1945) is a Chilean politician. A member of the Socialist Party and the youngest daughter of former president of Chile Salvador Allende and Hortensia Bussi, Allende served as a deputy from 1994 to 2010 and in March 2010 she became a Senator for the Atacama Region. On 28 February 2014, she was selected as president of the Senate, a position previously held by her father in the 1960s, making her the first female president of the Senate in Chilean history. On 3 April 2025, Chile's Constitutional Court removed Allende from office as a Senator, finding that she had engaged in business transactions incompatible with her office. She forfeited her seat on 9 April, some eleven months before her term was due to expire.

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