Cristian Tapia Ramos

Cristián Hernando Tapia Ramos (born 14 July 1968) is a Chilean politician who serves as deputy.

Biography He was born in Vallenar on 14 July 1968, in the Atacama Region. He is the son of Raúl Tapia Tirado and María Ramos Mercado.

He is single and the father of three children.

He completed his primary education in Vallenar, Copiapó, El Salvador, and Potrerillos, and his secondary education at the Liceo Industrial José Santo Ossa of Vallenar. He later studied Business and Finance Administration as a technical degree at the Instituto Nacional de Capacitación (INACAP) in Copiapó.

Political career He began his political trajectory as a trade union leader in the large-scale copper mining sector. He served as leader and president of Trade Union No. 1 of the Mantos de Oro Mining Company in Copiapó, regional president of the Mining Trade Unions of Atacama, vice president of the Mining Confederation of Chile, and vice president of the International Federation of Mining and Metallurgy.

He was a member of the Movimiento Amplio Social (MAS), founded by Senator Alejandro Navarro Brain, and later of the MAS Región party, of which he served as president between 2016 and 2018.

In 2008, he ran as an independent candidate for Mayor of Vallenar representing the Movimiento Amplio Social within the Juntos Podemos Más pact. He was elected with 8,189 votes, equivalent to 37.93% of the valid votes cast. In 2012, he was re-elected with 7,624 votes, corresponding to 44.43% of the total votes cast. In 2016, he was re-elected for a third term representing the MAS Región party, obtaining 6,076 votes, equivalent to 36.58% of the valid votes cast.

In November 2020, under the slogan Atacama florece con su gente, he resigned from his position as mayor in order to run for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for the 4th District of the Atacama Region—comprising the communes of Alto del Carmen, Caldera, Chañaral, Copiapó, Diego de Almagro, Vallenar, Freirina, Huasco, and Tierra Amarilla—in the parliamentary elections held in November 2021.

On 23 August 2021, he registered his candidacy for the Chamber of Deputies under a quota of the Party for Democracy within the New Social Pact pact, again for the 4th District of the Atacama Region, for the 2022–2026 term. He obtained 6,349 votes, corresponding to 6.43% of the valid votes cast.