Karol Cariola

Who is Karol Cariola?

Karol Aida Cariola Oliva is a Chilean midwife, and former president of the Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Concepción for 2010. She was elected General Secretary of the Juventudes Comunistas de Chile, abbr. JJ.CC., at the organizations XIII Congress held in October 2011. Cariola is the second woman to hold this post in the Communist Youth of Chile after the late communist leader Gladys Marin.

On August the 4th, 2013 Cariola emerged as the leading congressional candidate in the New Majority's primary elections for the electoral district of Recoleta and Independencia. Subsequently, during the Chilean general election held on November 17, 2013 she won 38.47% of the votes and became the deputy-elect for the 19thelectoral Santiago disctrict of Recoleta and Independencia. She commenced to serve a four-year term in the Chilean Congress on 11 March 2014.