Federico Ringeling

Federico Ringeling Hunger (born 8 July 1954) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy. He lalso was mayor of Zapallar.

Biography Federico Ringeling Hunger was born on 8 July 1954 in Santiago. He is the son of Marcelo Ringeling Leigh and Rosita Hunger Vizcarra. He married María Isabel Vicuña and is the father of three children.

He completed his primary and secondary education at the Colegio del Verbo Divino in Santiago. He later studied law at the University of Chile, Faculty of Law, where he obtained a degree in Legal and Social Sciences. His undergraduate thesis was titled Considerations on Poison in the Chilean Penal Code. He was sworn in as an attorney before the Supreme Court of Chile on 10 October 1983.

Professionally, he served as legal counsel for the Municipality of Loncoche. He also advised Banco del Estado de Chile in its offices in Villarrica, Pucón, and Loncoche, and worked for the Corporación de Asistencia Judicial del Bío-Bío.

Political career He began his political trajectory as President of his school’s Student Council.

In 1985, he was appointed Mayor of the Municipality of Zapallar, serving until 8 August 1989.

After leaving office, he joined National Renewal and ran for Deputy for District No. 10 (La Ligua, Petorca, Cabildo, Papudo, Zapallar, Puchuncaví, Quintero, Nogales, La Calera, La Cruz, Quillota, and Hijuelas) in the Valparaíso Region for the 1990–1994 term. He obtained 31,379 votes (24.31% of the validly cast ballots). He did not seek re-election in 1993.

In 2012, he ran as an independent candidate supported by the Independent Democratic Union for the Municipality of Zapallar. He was elected with 837 votes (34.40% of the validly cast ballots) for the 2012–2016 term.

Between 29 July and 6 December 2016, he served again as Mayor of Zapallar following the removal of the incumbent mayor.