Isabel Allende (politician)

For other uses, see Isabel Allende (disambiguation).

The Honourable María Isabel Allende
President of the Chilean Senate
In office 11 March 2014 – 11 March 2015
Deputy	Eugenio Tuma
Preceded by	Jorge Pizarro
Succeeded by	Patricio Walker
Senator for Atacama
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 March 2010
Preceded by	Ricardo Núñez
Leader of the Socialist Party of Chile
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 May 2015
Preceded by	Osvaldo Andrade
President of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies
In office 18 March 2003 – 16 March 2004
Preceded by	Adriana Muñoz
Succeeded by	Pablo Lorenzini
Member of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies
In office 11 March 1994 – 11 March 2010
Personal details
Born	(1945-01-18) 18 January 1945 Santiago, Chile
Political party	Socialist Party of Chile
Children	Gonzal Marcia
Alma mater	University of Chile
Profession	Sociologist
Website	Official website

Isabel Allende Bussi (born January 18, 1945 in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean Socialist Party politician and the daughter of former president of Chile Salvador Allende, and his wife, Hortensia Bussi. From 1994 to 2010 she was a deputy and in March 2010 she became a senator for the Atacama Region. On 28 February 2014, Allende was selected as president of the Senate, as of 11 March 2014, making her the first woman president of the body in Chilean history.

She went to the Maisonette College, and unlike her sisters, was initially attracted to the Catholic Church and received her first communion. In 1962, at the age of 17 she began studying sociology, and joined the university's socialist brigade. Five years later she accompanied her father to the congress of the Socialist Party in Chile.

Her first marriage with Sergio Meza, son of Gonzalo Meza Allende, did not last long, but they had a son Gonzal. With her second husband, Romilio Tambutti, she had a daughter named Marcia.

On 11 September 1973, the day of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, Isabel was the last person to enter the presidential palace, but after the military begin to bomb the presidential palace and the outcome was already clear, her father ordered the women to leave.

Isabel obtained political asylum in Mexico, with her mother and sister, where she spent sixteen years in exile before returning to Chile in 1989, in the final stretch of the military regime.

On returning to her homeland, Isabel began a successful political career; after Chile's return to democracy in 1990, she was elected as an MP, presiding over the house between 2003 and 2004, becoming the second woman to head this legislative body, after Adriana Muñoz.

See also

• Allende family
• History of Chile

External links

• Official website (Spanish)

Media related to Isabel Allende at Wikimedia Commons

• Biography from the Chilean National Congress
• [2] New York Times on exhumation of Salvador Allende