Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda

Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda (27 October 1913 − 29 June 1999) was a Chilean conservative politician.^[1]

He was an entrepreneur and served as Senator por 12 years (1961–1973). After the September 11th, coup d'état, Ibáñez served as a political advisor in the drafting of the Chilean Constitution of 1980.

Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda was born on October 27, 1913, in the city of Concepción. His father was Adolfo Ibáñez Boggiano and his mother was Graciela Ojeda Rivera. He studied at the Eduardo de la Barra High School in Valparaíso.

In 1930, he began working as an industrial entrepreneur and farmer, moving to Valparaíso to work for Adolfo Ibáñez Co., where he held a junior position and became president in 1951. He served as general manager of Tres Montes S.A. and Fábrica de Aceites S.A. That same year, he was appointed director and president of the Adolfo Ibáñez Foundation.

From 1952 to 1967, Ibáñez served as Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Economics at the Catholic University of Valparaíso. In 1954, he founded the Valparaíso School of Commerce, which later became the Adolfo Ibáñez University.

In 1966, while a senator, Ibáñez founded the National Party (PN). In 1969, he was reelected senator for the same Third Provincial Group, representing the PN from 1969 to September 11, 1973. In the party, he was a member of its Parliamentary Commission in 1970.

He served as a substitute senator on the Permanent Commission of Government; Foreign Affairs; Constitution, Legislation, Justice, and Regulations; Public Education; and National Defense; and was a member of the Joint Budget Committee.

In March 1971, Ibáñez was one of the founders of the newspaper Tribuna, an opposition newspaper to the marxist government of Salvador Allende.

In 1976, the year his wife died, he joined the Council of State, where he participated in the formulation of the Chilean Constitution of 1980.

There, Ibáñez embroiled in a major controversy alongside Carlos Cáceres, when he opposed the implementation of universal suffrage, which was unsuccessful.

In 1983, he founded the National Union Movement (MUN) with Andrés Allamand and Francisco Bulnes Sanfuentes. Four years later, in 1987, the MUN merged into the then-new party, National Renewal, becoming part of its Political Commission.

He was a member of RN until his death on June 29, 1999, in Viña del Mar.

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