Gonzalo Yuseff Sotomayor
Gonzalo Yuseff Sotomayor (18 November 1944 – 28 December 2024) was a Chilean lawyer and politician affiliated with the National Party and later a founding member of Renovación Nacional.
A member of the National Party since its founding in 1966 and later a founder of National Renewal (RN) in 1987, he was elected as Deputy for the 6th Departmental District (Valparaíso, Easter Island, and Quillota) for the 1973–1977 term.
Biography
He was born in Viña del Mar on 18 November 1944, the son of Rolando Yuseff Cáceres and Eliana Sotomayor Aliaga.
He studied at The Mackay School in Viña del Mar and studied law at the University of Chile in Valparaíso, earning his law degree on 16 December 1968.
He practiced law in Valparaíso, where he ran his own legal office.
He sat on the permanent commissions for Public Education and Labour and Social Security. His parliamentary service was cut short by the 11 September 1973 coup d’état, which dissolved Congress by Decree-Law 27 on 21 September.
His funeral was held on Sunday, 29 December 2024, at 09:00 at the Parque del Mar Cemetery in Concón.