Jorge Sharp
Mayor of Valparaíso
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| Min. 12:02 | Seaport operations and infrastructure have a fundamental role to play in providing for and reproducing the lives of people and communities. The port needs to be looked at from the perspective of people. This does not mean that port activity is not an extremely fundamental activity for the economy and economic development in general, as well as for global economic exchange –but it is not only that.
Jorge Sharp
Mayor of Valparaíso
| Min. 21:34 | The port authority must have decent working conditions and salaries for workers proportional to the economic movement they generate [...] without producing a caste of workers far from the reality of the city and the labor world.
Jorge Sharp
Mayor of Valparaíso
| Min. 49:04 | The city port of the 21st century is an organically interconnected port. It is so strongly integrated that the barrier is not perceptible from either the port or the city. [...] It should not be forgotten that the ports are a public asset, namely the coastal boundaries, which are fundamental for the development of cities. The coastal border is populated not only by port activity, but also by scientific activities, sports, leisure and cultural activities, fishing bays, fishing terminals…
Jorge Sharp
Mayor of Valparaíso
| Min. 57:29 | The task of 21st century cities is to leave behind the port view of the 20th century and look at city-port relations in the 21st century in a radically different way. All cities in the world face similar problems and the key is to develop territorial solutions.
Jorge Sharp
Mayor of Valparaíso
Bio
Jorge Sharp Fajardo is a Chilean lawyer and politician. Member of Territorios en Red. Currently mayor of Valparaíso. In 2016, he ran for mayor of Valparaíso in the "citizen primary," which he won with 1,703 votes. In the elections held on October 23 of the same year, he was elected mayor of Valparaíso with 53% of the vote. Two years after taking office, he managed to reduce the total deficit by Ch$6,824 million. In the elections of May 15 and 16, 2021, he was re-elected mayor of Valparaíso with a total of 64,766 votes (56%).
