Darío Molina

Darío Molina Sanhueza (born 20 June 1966) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy from 1998 to 2006.

Biography He was born on 20 June 1966 in Santiago, Chile. He is the son of Alejandro Molina Milmán and Zulema Sanhueza Soto. He was married to María Verónica Galdámez and is the father of three children.

He completed his primary education at Colegio Regina Pacis and his secondary education at Liceo N° 7 de Hombres de Ñuñoa. After finishing school, he enrolled at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he completed six semesters of a Bachelor's program in History and Geography. He later continued his studies at Diego Portales University, completing six semesters of Law.

In 1990 he worked as an advisor to the Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, Juan Antonio Coloma, a role he resumed between 1992 and 1997.

Political career He began his political activities during his student years, serving in 1984 as president of the Gremialist Movement of the Institute of History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In 1987 he joined the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), where he served as Vice President of its youth wing and, in 1995, as Vice President of the Metropolitan Region.

In the 1997 parliamentary elections, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for District No. 9 (Canela, Combarbalá, Illapel, Los Vilos, Monte Patria, Punitaqui, and Salamanca) in the Coquimbo Region, for the 1998–2002 term. He was re-elected in December 2001 for the 2002–2006 term. In the 2005 and 2009 parliamentary elections, he ran again for District No. 9 but was not elected.

On 11 March 2018, during the second administration of President Sebastián Piñera, he assumed office as Governor of the Province of Limarí in the Coquimbo Region, serving until 18 December 2018.

After more than 30 years of membership in the UDI, he resigned from the party in October 2019. On 29 November 2020, he participated in the Chile Vamos primary elections for regional governor but was not nominated.