Alejandro Sule

Alejandro Miguel Sule Fernández (born 30 November 1960) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy and regional counselor.

Biography He was born on 30 November 1960. He is the son of Fresia Fernández Guarda and Anselmo Sule Candia, who served as Senator for the Fifth Provincial Grouping of O'Higgins and Colchagua (1969–1973) and later as Senator for the Sixth Region, Ninth Senatorial District (1990–1998).

He is the father of four children: Vicente, Alejandro, Raimundo, and Mariano.

Professional career He completed his primary and secondary education at the Instituto Nacional and finished his studies in Mexico at the Secundaria Francisco Possenti. He pursued higher education at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he obtained a degree in Electrical Engineering. He later completed a postgraduate program in Business Management at the University of Chile.

While in Mexico, he worked at the Latin American Institute for Economic, Social and Communication Studies (Ilesco) and participated in Chilean folk music singing and dance groups.

In 1988 he returned to Chile with the aim of working alongside his father in the recovery of democracy, settling permanently in the country in 1991. During those years he worked as an entrepreneur in the development of new export markets.

In 1998, for professional reasons, he remained abroad. He returned in 2002 to work as a small business owner in the field of foreign trade.

Political career He began his political activity at an early age alongside his father and was a member of the Radical Youth.

Between 1991 and 2005 he participated in the organization and implementation of the Solidarity Conferences of the Sixth Region, an initiative organized by the Radical Social Democratic Party in which teams of professionals provided free services to low-income individuals. He currently serves as a member of the party’s national board.

In the parliamentary elections of December 2005 he was elected Deputy for District No. 33 (Codegua, Coinco, Coltauco, Doñihue, Graneros, Machalí, Malloa, Mostazal, Olivar, Quinta de Tilcoco, Rengo, and Requínoa) in the Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Region, for the 2006–2010 term. He obtained the district’s highest vote with 42,248 votes (37.24% of the valid ballots cast).

In the December 2009 parliamentary elections he ran for re-election in District No. 33 but was not elected. In 2013 he again ran for the same district, without success.

Between January and June 2015 he served as legislative advisor to the Ministry of Mining.

In 2014 he was part of the National Board of the Radical Social Democratic Party, serving as Second Vice President.