Consuelo Veloso

Consuelo de los Ángeles Veloso Ávila (born 11 February 1994) is a Chilean politician who serves as deputy.

Biography Veloso was born in Cauquenes, on 11 February 1994. She is the daughter of José Gastón Veloso Bustos and Helia Elizabeth Ávila Vásquez.

She completed her primary and secondary education at Liceo Inmaculada Concepción in Cauquenes, graduating in 2011. Veloso later enrolled in the law program at the Universidad del Desarrollo.

She has worked as a columnist in various media outlets, including El Mostrador.

Political career She began her political trajectory as a student leader. Between 2017 and 2018, she served as president of the student council at the Universidad del Desarrollo.

She is a social and environmental activist and a former member of the Democratic Revolution party. In 2017, she participated in the “Muévete x Cauquenes” campaign in support of those affected by the forest fires. She is the founder of “Un Sueño Mayor,” an organization with more than ten years of activity dedicated to promoting the rights of older persons.

She served as coordinator of the “Approve” option in the Maule Region during the plebiscite of 25 October 2020 on a new Constitution. In the presidential primaries of the Apruebo Dignidad coalition, she supported candidate Gabriel Boric.

In the election of constitutional convention members held on 15–16 May 2021, she ran in the 18th District of the Maule Region. She obtained the third-highest vote count with 8,506 votes, equivalent to 7.64% of the total votes cast, but was not elected.

On 5 August 2021, following her campaign for the Constitutional Convention, she announced her candidacy for the Chamber of Deputies of Chile in the 18th District, which includes the communes of Cauquenes, Chanco, Colbún, Linares, Longaví, Parral, Pelluhue, Retiro, San Javier, Villa Alegre, and Yerbas Buenas, in the Maule Region. Running as a candidate of Democratic Revolution within the Apruebo Dignidad pact, she was elected with 8,909 votes, corresponding to 7.57% of the valid votes cast.

On 25 September 2023, she resigned from her membership in Democratic Revolution, stating that she no longer felt aligned with the party's political project.