Virginia Reginato

Virginia María del Carmen Reginato Bozzo (born 16 July 1939) is a Chilean politician. A member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party, she formerly served as mayor of the city of Viña del Mar.

From 1992 to 2004 she served as councilor, and in 2004 was elected for the first time to lead the municipality for a four-year term. In the 2008 municipal elections, she was re-elected with the top national majority in votes (107,355) and the sixth largest percentage, with 78.76%. She is popularly known as "Tía Coty" (Aunt Coty).

Biography Born on 16 July 1939 in Valparaíso, she lived in the area until age three, when her parents moved to Viña del Mar.

While her official biography states that she studied at the Scuola Italiana and the College of the French Nuns of Valparaíso,

During her youth she was a beauty queen five times – at the centenary celebrations of the Sixth Fire Company of Valparaiso, the Red Cross carnival, the Società Canotieri Italiani, the Scuola Italiana kermesse, and the first International Industrial Fair.

She married Juan Gray, with whom she had two children, Verónica and Ricardo.

In the , she was elected as councilor for Viña del Mar. She was reelected in and , fulfilling this function until 2004.

In the municipal elections of 2008 she obtained 78.84% of the votes, being re-elected as mayor of Viña del Mar for the term 2008–2012, with the top national majority, and the most votes of any woman mayor in the country, with 107,355. and she was also re-elected to the position, for the terms 2012–2016 and 2016–2020, after which she will have served 16 years in the mayor's office of the so-called "garden city".