Carlos Maldonado Curti

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Carlos Maldonado Curti
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President of the Radical Party
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27 August 2018
Occupation Politician
Profession Lawyer

Carlos Domingo Maldonado Curti (born 21 July[ citation needed ] 1963) is a Chilean politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Radical Party and is currently linked to Freemasonry. [1]

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Maldonado was General Undersecretary of Government (2006–07) Minister of Justice (2007–10) during the first government of President Michelle Bachelet. [2] [3]

He was pre-candidate of the Radical Party of Chile (PR). [4] [5] [6] Later, on 2 September 2022, he was suspended from the PR for having promoted the «Reject» option towards the 2022 Chilean constitutional plebiscite, [7] [8] [9] [10] which was won by that option with a 62% of the votes. [11] [12]

Biography

He was born and raised in Cerro Jiménez in Valparaíso. [13] [14] His father ―a former radical leader― retired as an employee of the Empresa de Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE, «State Railways Company»), the same company where his grandfather had been a worker. [15]

His primary and secondary education were at the E-310 School, and the Eduardo de la Barra High School, both public schools. He graduated from the University of Valparaíso [13] School of Law and received a master's degree in law from the University of Chile.

In 2018, Maldonado was elected as the president of his party. [16]

On 27 March 2019, he joined with Sebastián Piñera. [17]

In the primaries of the Constituent Unity he lost against the candidates Yasna Provoste (winner; christian-democratic) and Paula Narváez (socialist).

Personal life

Football

He is supporter of Santiago Wanderers. [18]

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