Camila Flores

Camila Alejandra Flores Oporto (Paillaco, 9 February 1987) is a lawyer and politician from Chile, currently serving as a Member of Parliament.

She has been affiliated with Renovación Nacional (RN) since 2005. Elected to Congress in 2018, she presently serves as a Deputy of the Republic, representing the 6th District of the Valparaíso Region for the 2018–2022 and 2022–2026 legislative terms.

Flores has voiced her esteem for the Armed Forces of Chile and for the institutional legacy of Augusto Pinochet, whilst also making clear her condemnation of human rights abuses.

She has been a hard-liner on criminal justice, public security, and bioethical policy. She has also served on environmental and natural-resource committees, contributing to investigations into pollution incidents affecting the municipalities of Quintero, Concón and Puchuncaví.

Biography She is the daughter of David Flores Godoy and Verónica Oporto González, originally from Nontuelá, a village in southern Chile. Her family came from a rural background devoted to agriculture and was affected by expropriations during the government of the Popular Unity (UP), which she has said shaped her political outlook.

She completed her secondary education at the Manuel de Salas High School in Casablanca, graduating in 2004, and went on to study law at the Andrés Bello University campuses in Viña del Mar and Santiago. For her bachelor’s degree in legal sciences, she wrote a dissertation entitled Constitutionalisation of Civil Law. On 22 July 2010, she received the “Academic Excellence Award” at her graduation ceremony.

In 2017 she married law graduate Percy Marín Vera (b. 1969), then Regional Councillor for the Marga Marga Province in Valparaíso. They have one daughter.

In November 2021, following the birth of her daughter by caesarean section, she suffered an intestinal complication that developed into sepsis, leading to hospitalisation at Clínica Ciudad del Mar. She later spoke publicly about her recovery, raising awareness of postnatal depression and the importance of family and medical support. Within the National Renewal Youth (JRN), she served as district president and national councillor.

Re-elected in 2021 for the 2022–2026 term, she has since served on the Standing Committees for Constitution, Legislation, Justice and Regulation; National Defence; and Emergency, Disaster and Firefighters. and examining Chile’s strategic defence capabilities. She has participated in debates on budgetary allocations and summoned officials from the Ministry of National Defence to report on the execution of resources and defence-related programmes.