Lily Pérez

Lily Jovanka Pérez San Martín (born May 10, 1963) is a Chilean publicist and politician. She served as a councilor for La Florida from 1992 to 1996, a deputy for District 26 from 1998 to 2006, a deputy for District 36 from 2008 to 2010, and a senator for Constituency 5 from 2010 to 2018. Furthermore, she was the president of the now-defunct Amplitude party from 2014 to 2018.

Early life and career Liliana Pérez was born on 10 May 1963 in Santiago. She is the daughter of Samuel Manuel Pérez Baeza and Liliana Beatriz San Martín Zavala. Later, she changed her legal name to Lily. She completed her primary and secondary schooling at the . She graduated as a publicist from the University of the Pacific and earned a postgraduate degree in political philosophy from Gabriela Mistral University. She was a member of the housing and urban planning commissions, and presided over the commission on human rights, nationality, and citizenship.

On 16 January 2014, she resigned from her membership in RN, accusing its board of directors, headed by Carlos Larraín, of "intolerance, classism, and personalism." Later that year, she joined the Amplitude political movement, and was elected president of its national board in June 2016. She is a supporter of abortion on three grounds - when the mother's life is at risk, when the fetus will not survive the pregnancy, and in the case of rape.

Personal life Pérez is married to the lawyer and has two children from her first marriage, as well as five stepdaughters. In 2010, she became the victim of a Neo-Nazi attack in Viña del Mar, but she escaped without serious injuries. In March 2011, she experienced an episode of viral trigeminal neuralgia, which resulted in temporary facial paralysis. She received treatment for this condition at the Clínica Alemana de Santiago.