Alejandro Navarro (politician)

Alejandro Navarro Brain (born 20 November 1958) is a Chilean politician who has served as a member of Parliament for the Bío-Bío Region since 1994.

[1] First as Deputy and since 2006 as Senator, in 2009 founded the Broad Social Movement (MAS in Spanish), same year that he ran for the President of the Republic post.

From an early age ANB learnt his father’s profession, helping him with minor tasks at the house’s workshop.

In early 1980s, Navarro had a brief spell at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, where he studied geography, career which he abandoned due to economic problems.

Is during these years when Alejandro shapes his character as a determined and courageous leader, becoming the president of the university’s students federation (FEC in Spanish).

He would then rise to prominence, serving as the citizen’s voice in Chile’s Lower Chamber while investigating large firms accused of fraud.