Gael Yeomans
Gael Fernanda Yeomans Araya is a Chilean lawyer and politician. She was secretary general of the Libertarian Left movement. She is currently a member of the Chamber of Deputies for District 13 and is president of the Social Convergence party.Biography
Gael Yeomans graduated from primary school at the Colegio Javiera Carrera in Rancagua in 2002. Her secondary education took place at the Sacred Heart Institute in the same city, and she graduated in 2006. She later entered the Law School of the University of Chile, obtaining a law degree in March 2019.
Her political career began as a member of the Communist Youth, and she then joined the and the Arrebol Collective. As secretary general of the Libertarian Left, she was one of the founders of the Broad Front.
In the 2017 parliamentary elections, she was a candidate for national deputy representing District 13, which includes the communes El Bosque, La Cisterna, Lo Espejo, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, San Miguel, and San Ramón. She was elected after receiving 13,718 votes, corresponding to 5.60% of the total votes cast. She assumed the position on 11 March 2018 and joined the Citizen Security and Labor and Social Security Commissions. In February 2018 she characterized herself as representing a feminist voting bloc.
Yeomans registered as a member of the Democratic Revolution and presented herself as a deputy of that party in District 13. In April 2019 she informed the Chamber of Deputies of her separation from the party. In May 2019 she presented her candidacy for president of the newly founded Social Convergence party, winning with a 54% majority.
