1. Kenneth Giorgio Jackson Drago was born on 6 February 1987 and is a Chilean politician and engineer who was Chile's Minister of Social Development from 6 September 2022 until 11 August 2023.
19 Facts About Giorgio Jackson
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Giorgio Jackson previously held the position of Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency between March and September 2022.
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Giorgio Jackson is the founder and first congressman of the Democratic Revolution political party, achieving the highest personal vote in the 2017 elections to the lower chamber.
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Giorgio Jackson was one of the leaders of the student protests of 2011 and collaborated in the creation of the Chilean Broad Front and the presidential candidacy of Beatriz Sanchez.
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Giorgio Jackson has maintained high approval ratings in public opinion polls.
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Giorgio Jackson was born in Vina del Mar, Chile, on 6 February, 1987, son of Kenneth Paul Giorgio Jackson Salinas and Carmen Gloria Elisa Drago Caballero.
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Giorgio Jackson studied at the Deutsche Schule Sankt Thomas Morus, a private school located in the Santiago commune of Providencia.
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Giorgio Jackson was general coordinator of CET between 2009 and 2010.
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In 2008, Giorgio Jackson joined the center-left student movement New University Action.
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Giorgio Jackson intervened in various official meetings, one of the most important of which was held in front of the Education Commission of the Senate of Chile, where he argued for "a moral imperative that the State be a guarantor of rights and not consumer goods".
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Giorgio Jackson made a trip to Europe together with Camila Vallejo and Francisco Figueroa, where they spoke to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
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Giorgio Jackson avoided referring to a future political career during the protests of 2011, stating that it was not in his immediate plans.
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Giorgio Jackson chose to have a campaign funded exclusively by his supporters, excluding corporate and anonymous donations.
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Giorgio Jackson is one of the four student leaders who were elected deputies in those elections, along with Camila Vallejo, Gabriel Boric and Karol Cariola.
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Giorgio Jackson took up his position as deputy on March 11,2014.
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Giorgio Jackson participated in the Citizen Security Commission, managing the creation of a commission investigating the role of the police in the most vulnerable sectors of the country.
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From 2016 onwards, Giorgio Jackson has played a role in the construction of Broad Front, a coalition of various leftist political forces and citizen movements which was founded for the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2017, and supported the presidential candidacy of Beatriz Sanchez.
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Giorgio Jackson said on a number of occasions that he would not stand for a third term.
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Giorgio Jackson was the head of Gabriel Boric's 2021 presidential election campaign.