Ricardo Rincón González
Ricardo Rincón | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 March 2010 – 11 March 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Alejandro Sule |
| Succeeded by | District dissolved |
| Constituency | 33th District |
| In office 11 March 1998 – 11 March 2002 | |
| Preceded by | Andrés Chadwick |
| Succeeded by | Eugenio Bauer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 March 1966 |
| Party | Christian Democratic Party (DC) |
| Spouse | Patricia Farías |
| Children | Two |
| Relatives | Ximena Rincón (sister) Mónica Rincón (sister) |
| Alma mater |
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| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Social sciences |
Ricardo Enrique Rincón González (born 22 March 1966) is a Chilean politician who served as a parliamentarian from 1998 to 2002, and from 2010 to 2018.[1]
Family and early life
Rincón was born on 22 March 1966 in Santiago, Chile.[2] He is the son of Ricardo Rincón Iglesias and Luisa González Cofré.[2] He is the brother of Ximena Rincón and journalist Mónica Rincón.[2]
He is married to Patricia Alejandra Farías Palma and has two children, Exequiel and Rafaela.[2]
Professional career
Rincón completed his primary education at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Concepción and his secondary studies at the Instituto de Humanidades in the same city.[2]
He later studied law at the University of Concepción and subsequently at the Pedro de Valdivia University, where he obtained a degree in Legal and Social Sciences.[2] He was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Chile on 22 January 2007.[2]
In his professional career, Rincón worked as a judicial clerk in a private law firm.[2] Between 1994 and 1996, he served as chief of staff to the Intendant of the VI Region.[2] During the same period, he worked as executive secretary of the National Council for the Control of Narcotics (Conace) in the VI Region.[2]
Between 2007 and 2009, he worked as an adviser at the Ministry of Defense.[2]
Political career
He joined the Christian Democratic Party while still in secondary school.[2] In 1984, he became secretary general of the Law Students' Center at the University of Concepción.[2]
The following year, and until 1986, he was a member of the General Assembly of the Student Federation of the same university.[2] In 1987, he served as president of the Election Qualification Tribunal and drafted the first statutes of that body.[2]
In 1988, he was appointed general proxy of the "No" option in the plebiscite and became vice president of the university branch of the Christian Democratic Party.[2] For the 1989 parliamentary elections, he served as general proxy for senatorial candidate Arturo Frei Bolívar.[2] In 1995, he was appointed provincial councillor in Rengo.[2]
Between 2007 and 2009, he served as provincial president of District No. 33 of the Christian Democratic Party.[2] In March 2018, he resigned his membership in the Christian Democratic Party.[2]
On 11 January 2021, he announced his candidacy for Regional Governor of the O'Higgins Region, running as an independent candidate.[2]