Fernando Atria

{{Short description|Chilean legal scholar and politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Fernando Atria

| image = 200px

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1968|10|30}}

| birth_place = New York, United States

| office = Member of the Constitutional Convention

| constituency = 10th District

| term_start = 4 July 2021

| term_end = 4 July 2022

| nationality = Chilean

| party = Socialist Party
(2010–2019)
Common Force (2020–2022)
Social Convergence (2022–)

| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Universidad de Chile (B.A. in Laws, 1994)|University of Edinburgh (Ph.D. in Laws, 1999)}}

| occupation = Politician

| profession = Lawyer

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Fernando Atria Lemaitre (born 1968) is a Chilean intellectual, lawyer, university teacher and politician. Atria has been an avid participant of the intellectual debates about reforms in the Chilean education system and the Constitution of Chile.

He has been called by El Mostrador "the ideologue of the 2011 Chilean student protests".{{cite web|url=http://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pais/2016/09/25/atria-ideologo-del-movimiento-del-2011-y-militante-ps-tambien-se-lanza-a-la-presidencial/|title=Atria, idéologo del movimiento del 2011 y militante PS, también se lanza a la presidencial|language=Spanish|accessdate=December 7, 2016|date=September 25, 2016|work=El Mostrador}} Writing in El Desconcierto in 2018 pundit Rodrigo Karmy Bolton posits that Fernando Atria is Axel Kaiser's main "intellectual enemy".{{Cite web|url=https://www.eldesconcierto.cl/opinion/2018/03/19/la-tirania-de-axel-kaiser-un-idolatra-del-mercado.html|title=La tiranía de Axel Kaiser, un idólatra del mercado|date=2018-03-19|access-date=2021-03-27|website=El Desconcierto|last=Karmy Bolton|first=Rodrigo}} Similarly, there have been centre-right intellectuals like Hugo Eduardo Herrera who have been strong critics of Atria.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-pm/noticia/hugo-herrera-filosofo-tanto-atria-como-la-derecha-mas-extrema-enturbian-el-debate-y-no-permiten-entendimientos/6EWTXR6XJVFAJAVERKBZUORPDE/%3foutputType=amp|title=Hugo Herrera, filósofo: "Tanto Atria como la derecha más extrema enturbian el debate y no permiten entendimientos"|publisher=CNN Chile|date=3 November 2020|accessdate=25 December 2021}}

In the 2021 Chilean Constitutional Convention election Atria won a seat into the Constitutional Convention that drafted a new constitution proposal for Chile.{{Cite web|url=https://www.meganoticias.cl/amp/nacional/336935-fernando-atria-resultados-constituyentes-famosos-servelcl-en-vivo.html|title=Abogado Fernando Atria es electo y será parte de la Convención Constituyente|publisher=Mega|date=16 May 2021|accessdate=25 December 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.www.t13.cl/amp/noticia/elecciones-2021/politica/con-atria-marinovic-y-politzer-estos-son-constituyentes-representaran-al-distrito-10|title=Con Atria, Marinovic y Politzer: Estos son los constituyentes que representarán al Distrito 10|publisher=Canal 13|date=16 May 2021|accessdate=25 December 2021}} During this time Atria made frequent TV appearances defending the work of the convention and the proposed constitution.