Isabel Allende (politician)

María Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende in August 2011
President of the Chilean Senate
In office
11 March 2014 (2014-03-11)  11 March 2015 (2015-03-11)
Preceded byJorge Pizarro
Succeeded byPatricio Walker
Senator for Valparaíso
Assumed office
11 March 2018 (2018-03-11)
Preceded byIgnacio Walker
Senator for Atacama
In office
11 March 2010 (2010-03-11)  11 March 2018 (2018-03-11)
Preceded byRicardo Núñez Muñoz
Succeeded byYasna Provoste
Leader of the Socialist Party of Chile
In office
17 May 2015 (2015-05-17)  9 April 2017 (2017-04-09)
Preceded byOsvaldo Andrade
Succeeded byÁlvaro Elizalde
President of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies
In office
18 March 2003 (2003-03-18)  16 March 2004 (2004-03-16)
Preceded byAdriana Muñoz
Succeeded byPablo Lorenzini
Member of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies
In office
11 March 1998 (1998-03-11)  11 March 2010 (2010-03-11)
Preceded byJaime Estévez
Succeeded byOsvaldo Andrade
Constituency29th District
In office
11 March 1994  11 March 1998
Preceded byVíctor Manuel Rebolledo
Succeeded byAdriana Muñoz
Constituency9th District
Personal details
Born (1945-01-18) 18 January 1945
Santiago, Chile
Political partySocialist Party of Chile
Children2
Parents
RelativesAllende family
Alma materUniversity of Chile
ProfessionSociologist
WebsiteOfficial website

María Isabel Allende Bussi (US: /ɑːˈjɛnd, -di/, UK: /æˈ-, ˈɛn-/, Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ; born 18 January 1945) is a Chilean politician.

A member of the Socialist Party and the youngest daughter of former president of Chile Salvador Allende and Hortensia Bussi, Allende served as a deputy from 1994 to 2010 and in March 2010 she became a Senator for the Atacama Region. On 28 February 2014, she was selected as president of the Senate, a position previously held by her father in the 1960s, making her the first female president of the Senate in Chilean history.