Ricardo Rincón González

Ricardo Rincón
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
11 March 2010 – 11 March 2018
Preceded byAlejandro Sule
Succeeded byDistrict dissolved
Constituency33th District
In office
11 March 1998 – 11 March 2002
Preceded byAndrés Chadwick
Succeeded byEugenio Bauer
Personal details
Born (1966-03-22) 22 March 1966
PartyChristian Democratic Party (DC)
SpousePatricia Farías
ChildrenTwo
RelativesXimena Rincón (sister)
Mónica Rincón (sister)
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionSocial 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]

References

  1. ^ "El caso del diputado Rincón que complica a Carolina Goic de cara a la Junta Nacional de la DC". Emol. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "Ricardo Enrique Rincón González". Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile (in Spanish).