Marcelo Chávez Velásquez

Marcelo Omar Chávez Velásquez (born 19 February 1975) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.

Biography He was born in Valparaíso on 19 February 1975. He is the son of Germán Chávez Prado and Consuelo del Carmen Velásquez Riffo.

He completed his secondary education at the Winterhill School in Viña del Mar. He then studied Law at the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception, obtaining the degree of Licentiate in Law. His thesis was titled History of Law No. 19.934 on life annuities: foundations and introduced amendments.

In 2002, he was awarded a scholarship by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to take a leadership course in Washington, D.C., United States. In 2004, he was invited by the Foundation for Social Analysis and Strategies to a residency in Madrid, Spain.

Political career He has been a member of the Christian Democratic Party since the age of fourteen. He began his political involvement as a student leader in the student government of his secondary school. While a university student, he served as Secretary General and Vice President of the Student Federation of the Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception.

After graduating, in 2001 he worked at the Sub-Secretariat of Labour in the office of Sub-Secretary Yerko Ljubetic. In 2002, he was appointed regional councillor of the Biobío Region, where he served as President of the Promotion and Productive Development Commission and of the International Relations Commission, and as chief of the Christian Democratic regional councillors' bench.

After ten years as regional councillor, he resigned in November 2012 to focus on his campaign as a candidate for Deputy for 45th District.

At the party level, he was National President of the Youth Wing of the Christian Democratic Party between 2003 and 2006.

At the international level, in 2005 he was elected President of the Youth of the Christian Democrat Organization of America (ODCA), delivering leadership lectures to politically engaged youth in Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Paraguay, among other countries.

In the 2013 parliamentary elections, he was elected Deputy for District No. 45 of the Biobío Region, representing the Christian Democratic Party. He served in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile from March 2014 to March 2018 and was a member of the Permanent Commissions on Environment and Natural Resources; and Interior Government, Nationality, Citizenship and Regionalization.