Carolina Montserrat Tohá Morales (born May 12, 1965) is a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an politician from the Party for Democracy

Party for Democracy

The Party for Democracy is a political party in Chile; it is social democratic in its political orientation. It was founded in December 1987 by Ricardo Lagos, who aimed at forming a legal social democratic party . The party continued to function after the defeat of Pinochet...

 (PPD). She is the daughter of the late Socialist politician, Vice President, and minister of Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....

, José Tohá

José Tohá

José Tohá González was a Chilean journalist, lawyer, political figure, and Socialist politician.He was born in Chillán, the son of Spanish immigrant José Tohá Soldavilla and of Brunilda González Monteagudo. After completing his secondary studies in his natal city, he studied law at the ...

.

Tohá made her debut in politics in 1984 as a leader of the University of Chile student federation (Fech). During the presidency of Ricardo Lagos

Ricardo Lagos

Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union candidate Joaquín Lavín...

 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

Chamber of Deputies of Chile

The Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile is the lower house of Chile's bicameral Congress. Its organisation and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of Chile's current constitution....

 —Chile's lower chamber of Congress—, representing the Santiago district, and was reelected in 2005

Chilean parliamentary election, 2005

The 2005 Chilean parliamentary election took place on December 11, 2005, in conjunction with the presidential election. All of the 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies were contested, while 20 out of 38 seats in the Senate were up for election . Deputies serve for a period of four years, while...

. On March 12, 2009 she replaced Francisco Vidal

Francisco Vidal (Chilean politician)

Francisco Javier Vidal Salinas is a Chilean politician and Minister of National Defense from March 2009 to March 2010. Before this position he served as Minister Secretary General of Government of Chile during the administrations of Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet and Interior Minister during...

 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

Felipe Harboe

Felipe Harboe Bascuñán is a Chilean politician from the Party for Democracy and current Deputy in Congress. He is a former Deputy Interior MInister of Chile and acting Minister of the Interior.-Early years:...

. On December 14, 2009 she quit her government post to lead Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle

Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He is currently Senator for Los Ríos and was President of the Senate from 2006 to 2008. He attempted a comeback as the candidate of the ruling Concertación...

's presidential runoff campaign. In 2010 she was elected president of the PPD.

Tohá has a law degree from the University of Chile and a Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 in political science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 from the University of Milan

University of Milan

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. She is married (though currently estranged) to physician and Socialist deputy Fulvio Rossi and has two children from an earlier partner.

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