María Rivera | |
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Member of the Constitutional Convention | |
In office 4 July 2021 – 4 July 2022 | |
Constituency | 8th Disctict |
Personal details | |
Born | Santiago, Chile | 28 January 1958
Other political affiliations | The List of the People (2020–2021) [1] |
Alma mater | Bolivarian University of Chile (BA) |
Occupation | Political activist |
Profession | Lawyer |
María Magdalena Rivera Iribarren (born 28 January 1958) is a Chilean political activist, politician and lawyer.
She is part of the International Workers' Movemement (IWM) linked to the Fourth International (of trotskyist filiation). [2] [3] [4]
When Rivera was 12 in 1970, she worked as an activist for Salvador Allende candidacy. Then, in 1972 she became part of the Revolutionary Students Front (FER). [5]
In 2019, she was a founding member of the «Popular Defender», organisation which has the objective of defending prisoners of the Social Outbrust (2019–20 protests). [5]
During the 2020–21 period, she was proposed as candidate for the Constitutional Convention, [6] which was formalized in early 2021 when was reported that she will run for the 8th District. [7] Thus, media like El Líbero ―rightist online newspaper― branded her as a « ultra» due to her trotskyist filiation [7] [6] and IWM purposes for take «the power for the workers and the people, only one solution to finish the exploitation and capitalism». [7]