Lorena Delgado Varas

Lorena Olivia Delgado Varas is a Swedish politician and member of the Riksdag. Formerly a member of the Left [Party (Sweden)|Left Party], she has represented Stockholm Municipality since September 2018.

Early life and education

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.

Delgado Varas began her political career as a member of the municipal council in Stockholm Municipality between 2014 and 2018. In the 2018 [Swedish general election], she was elected to the Riksdag, Sweden's parliament and national legislature, in the Stockholm Municipality constituency. She was re-elected in the 2022 [Swedish general election]. Delgado Varase was excluded by the Left Party's parliamentary group in 2025 after she shared an allegedly antisemitic picture and refused to resign as Member of the Riksdag, and instead resigned as a member of the party. Her resignation coincided with the exclusion of Daniel Riazat.