Lorena Delgado Varas
Lorena Delgado Varas | |
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Delgado Varas in May 2024 | |
| Member of the Riksdag | |
| Assumed office 24 September 2018 | |
| Constituency | Stockholm Municipality |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lorena Olivia Delgado Varas 1974 (age 50–51) |
| Political party | Left Party |
| Alma mater | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
Lorena Olivia Delgado Varas (born 1974) is a Swedish politician and member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Left Party, she has represented Stockholm Municipality since September 2018.
Delgado Varas is the daughter of mechanical engineer Daniel Delgado and preschool teacher Olivia Varas Acosta. She was educated in Temuco in Chile and studied chemical engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She was quality assistant at Fresenius Kabi in 2010 and has been a quality engineer at AstraZeneca since 2011. She was a member of the municipal council in Stockholm Municipality between 2014 and 2018.
Delgado Varase was excluded by the Left Party's parliamentary group in 2025 after she shared an antisemitic picture and refused to resign as Member of the Riksdag but was allowed to keep her membership in the party.