Carolina Tohá, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Carolina Tohá

Chilean politician

Date of Birth: 12-May-1965

Place of Birth: Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Profession: politician

Nationality: Chile

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Carolina Tohá

  • Carolina Monserrat Tohá Morales (born 12 May 1965) is a Chilean politician from the Party for Democracy (Partido por la Democracia, PPD).
  • She is the daughter of the socialist politician, vice president and minister of Salvador Allende José Tohá, who was killed during the Chilean dictatorship (1973–1990).
  • She was the mayor of Santiago from 2012 to 2016. Tohá entered politics in 1984 as a leader of the University of Chile student federation (Fech).
  • During the presidency of Ricardo Lagos she was Deputy Minister Secretary General of Government.
  • In 1999, she was vice-president of the PPD.
  • In 2001, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies — Chile's lower chamber of Congress — representing the Santiago district, and was re-elected in 2005. On 12 March 2009, she replaced Francisco Vidal in the Ministry General Secretariat of Government, becoming the first woman to hold that post in the country's history.
  • Her congress seat became vacant, as both positions are incompatible with each other in times of peace.
  • She was replaced by Felipe Harboe.
  • On 14 December 2009, she left her government post to lead Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle's presidential run-off campaign.
  • In 2010, she was elected president of the PPD.
  • On 28 October 2012, she was elected mayor of Santiago by an absolute majority, ending the right's 12-year rule over a key municipality.
  • In 2016, she lost the election. Tohá has a law degree from the University of Chile and a Ph.D.
  • in political science from the University of Milan.
  • She is married (though currently estranged) to the physician and socialist deputy Fulvio Rossi.
  • She has two children from an earlier partner.

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