In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is van Rysselbergheand the second or maternal family name is Herrera.
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She was mayor of Concepción from 2000 until her resignation in March 2010 to take the office of Intendant of the Biobío Region. Previously,she had been a city council member since 1992.[3] On 3 April 2011 she resigned as Intendant.
Family
Her surname comes from Flanders,Belgium.[4] Her great grandfather was Max van Rysselberghe,an engineer who left Belgium when he was about 20 years old on what was originally planned to be a six-month-long scientific expedition to Antarctica. The expedition lasted two years. Reports of her connection to the Pierre Van Rysselberghe dynasty are,at this point,unverified. During the first year,plans to return to Europe were abandoned when the ice in the waterways failed to thaw during the summer. In Belgium,Max met Isabel Martínez,the daughter of Valentin Martínez,Chilean Minister of Public Works,who at that time had escaped to Belgium after the coup in Chile. Max and Isabel were married in Europe,and in 1905 left for Chile. This couple had four children,Lydia,Yvonne,and Henry,the grandfather of Jacqueline and Daniel.[3]
Controversy
On 23 January 2017 an investigative report published by the news agency Ciper Chile disclosed a series of email exchanges which had happened in 2014 between Jacqueline van Rysselberghe and Luis Felipe Moncada,President of ASIPES (Fishing Industry Association of the Bío Bío Region) while she was presiding the Senate Fishing Committee. That committee was discussing a law that would benefit smaller,artisan fishermen so it was opposed by ASIPES. In those emails,Moncada gave explicit instructions to the Senator on how to act in the committee,including clauses to put in the law. Former assistant to the Senator Joel Chávez declared to prosecutors on 4 August 2016 that van Rysselberghe had been receiving monies from ASIPES since the municipal elections of 2000,[5] when she was first elected Mayor of Concepción. The Senator confirmed the existence of the email exchanges but declared "it had not influenced legislative work."[6]
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