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Gabriel Osorio | |
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| Expert Commissioner for the Constitutional Council | |
| In office 25 January 2023 – 7 November 2023 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 May 1983 |
| Party | Socialist Party |
| Education |
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| Occupation | Academic |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Gabriel Ignacio Osorio Vargas (born 21 May 1983) is a Chilean lawyer, academic, and politician who is a member of the Socialist Party of Chile. He specializes in constitutional and electoral law and has worked as a government legal adviser, university professor, and political adviser. He was a member of the Expert Commission established during the 2023 Chilean constitutional process and has subsequently represented political figures and parties in constitutional and electoral proceedings.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Osorio was born in Santiago, Chile, on 21 May 1983, the son of Mario Osorio Bustamante and Mónica Vargas Gajardo.[1] He attended the Liceo Experimental Manuel de Salas for his primary and secondary education. He studied law at the Central University of Chile, graduating as a lawyer in April 2010. In 2016, he obtained a master's degree in law with a specialization in public law from the University of Chile.[1]
Academic and legal career
[edit]Osorio has taught at several Chilean universities. At Adolfo Ibáñez University, he has taught electoral law and electoral justice; at the University of Chile, he has been a guest professor in a postgraduate diploma in strategic litigation involving fundamental rights; at Andrés Bello University, he has taught political institutions and organic constitutional law; and at the Central University of Chile, he has taught constitutional electoral law.[1][4]
From 2011 to 2014, he worked as a lawyer at the firm Zúñiga Campos Abogados. He subsequently became a founding partner of Osorio Vargas & Abogados.[1]
In 2014, Osorio worked as a lawyer in the Legal Division of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security. From 2015 to 2018, during the second government of President Michelle Bachelet, he served as a legal adviser in the Legislative Legal Division of the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency.[1][5]
Osorio has also worked as a legal adviser to the Socialist Party. In 2021, he headed the party's legal advisory team for its delegation to the Constitutional Convention, whose members were elected in that year's constitutional convention elections.[6] He later became an adviser to the Socialist Party leadership during negotiations over the second constitutional process and was described as combining expertise in public law and electoral law.[7]
Constitutional processes
[edit]In November 2019, Osorio represented the Socialist Party on the technical committee that drafted the constitutional reform that became Law No. 21,200, which established the procedure for the first constitutional process following the 2019–2020 Chilean protests.[8]
He subsequently participated in the drafting of Law No. 21,533, which established the institutional framework for the second constitutional process. On 25 January 2023, the Senate appointed him as one of its 12 members of the Expert Commission, a 24-member body tasked with preparing a preliminary draft constitution for consideration by the Constitutional Council.[9][1]
The Expert Commission was installed on 6 March 2023. Osorio served on its Subcommission on Political System, Constitutional Reform and Form of State.[10][1]
Legal representation
[edit]In January 2025, Osorio was retained by former senator Isabel Allende Bussi and her family in connection with the government's abandoned attempt to purchase the former residence of President Salvador Allende. He subsequently represented Allende before the Constitutional Court in proceedings concerning requests for her removal from the Senate.[11][12]
That same month, he represented Maite Orsini, a member of the Broad Front, before the party's regional tribunal in disciplinary proceedings that could have resulted in her expulsion from the party.[13]
In November 2024, Osorio represented Miguel Concha in proceedings concerning the recount of votes from the 2024 municipal election for mayor of Peñalolén. The recount had been ordered after Concha defeated Claudia Mora by 123 votes.[14]
In September 2025, Osorio represented a group of governing parties and the Christian Democratic Party before the Election Certification Tribunal in a challenge to Senator Ximena Rincón's candidacy for a third consecutive Senate term in the Maule Region. The tribunal upheld the challenge by a vote of three to two, ruling that Rincón was ineligible to seek another consecutive term under the constitutional limits on parliamentary reelection.[15]
Works
[edit]- Partidos políticos: Historia institucional y dogmática jurídica (2018)[16]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Gabriel Osorio Vargas". Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 September 2025.
- ↑ "Gabriel Osorio y parlamentarios: los problemas que enfrenta el abogado PS en medio de la política". Emol. 20 January 2025. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
- ↑ "Quién es Gabriel Osorio, el abogado designado por la familia Allende para su defensa tras fallida compra de casa". La Tercera. 7 January 2025. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
- ↑ "Gabriel Osorio: Experto - Consejo Constitucional 2023" (in Spanish). La Tercera. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Comisión técnica asesora: Los elegidos para materializar el acuerdo constitucional en un proyecto de ley" (in Spanish). Emol. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "De Baradit a Pinto: quiénes integran y cómo se coordinará la bancada de convencionales PS" (in Spanish). La Tercera. 20 May 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Los asesores que están detrás de las negociaciones por una nueva Constitución" (in Spanish). La Tercera. 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Mesa Técnica Constituyente" (in Spanish). Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Sesión 112ª, especial, miércoles 25 de enero de 2023" (in Spanish). Senate of Chile. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Proceso constituyente: se instala Comisión Experta y elige mesa directiva" (in Spanish). Senate of Chile. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Quién es Gabriel Osorio, el abogado designado por la familia Allende para su defensa tras fallida compra de casa" (in Spanish). La Tercera. 7 January 2025. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Sentencia Rol N.º 16.122-25" (PDF) (in Spanish). Constitutional Court of Chile. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Maite Orsini vuelve al Congreso y recluta al abogado Gabriel Osorio para su defensa ante el Tribunal Supremo del FA" (in Spanish). La Tercera. 20 January 2025. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Abogado de Miguel Concha en reconteo de votos por alcaldía de Peñalolén: "Los resultados se estarían manteniendo e incluso aumentando"" (in Spanish). La Tercera. 8 November 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Ximena Rincón no será candidata: Tricel asesta duro golpe contra senadora de Demócratas y bloquea su tercer periodo en el Maule" (in Spanish). La Tercera. 15 September 2025. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Partidos políticos: Historia institucional y dogmática jurídica" (in Spanish). Libromar. Retrieved 14 January 2026.