Roberto León
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Roberto Eduardo León Ramírez (Santiago, February 11, 1951) is a Chilean lawyer and Christian Democrat politician. He served as deputy of the Republic, for district No. 36, which included the communes of Curicó, Vichuquén, Licantén, Hualañé, and Teno.[1] He was up for reelection in November 2017 for the new district 17 of the Maule Region, an objective that he did not meet and ended his term on March 10, 2018.
Married with four children.[2]
He graduated as a lawyer from the University of Chile in 1975. He studied high school at Colegio San Marcos de Arica and Luis Campino, a militant of the Christian Democracy.[2]
In the professional field, he developed his career as a Lawyer together with his dedication to the agricultural activity. His functions are multiple, he is a shareholder in companies related to video cable in Curicó, he also participates, as a partner, in companies of the industrial security sector and in the agricultural company Licantén and Vichuquén. He also holds the position of Director in the Mataquito Cultural Corporation and in the Licantén Advancement Committee.[3]
On September 6, 2017, a national scandal broke out when various media outlets accused nearly 40 parliamentarians, including Roberto León, of having accepted advisory reports with paragraphs copied verbatim from the internet or books, without crediting the writer of the original source. The five reports from Roberto León that record plagiarism were received by the legislator in 2014, and paid $10.9 million.[4]
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