Fernando Sotomayor

Fernando Sotomayor García (11 October 1922 – March 2013) was a Chilean agricultural entrepreneur and politician from the Christian Democratic Party. He served as a councillor in Cabildo and as a deputy for the province of Colchagua between 1965 and 1969.

Biography Sotomayor was born in Santiago on 11 October 1922, the son of Gonzalo Sotomayor and Ester García. He studied at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Santiago. From 1941 he worked in agriculture. He married Carmen Garretón Risopatrón on 7 November 1947; they had seven children.

Political career A member of the Christian Democratic Party, he was among the founders of the party in Cabildo. He served as councillor of the Cabildo Municipality from 1950 to 1965.

In 1965, Sotomayor was elected deputy for the 10th Departmental Group (San Fernando and Santa Cruz), for the 1965–1969 term. He sat on the Permanent Commissions on Agriculture and Colonization; Economy and Trade; Housing and Urban Development; and National Defense. He was also an alternate member of the Christian Democratic parliamentary committee in 1966, 1967 and 1969.

Among the bills he sponsored that became law were Law No. 16,362 (5 November 1965), on royalties and maintenance for agricultural workers, and Law No. 16,772 (15 May 1968), on weekly wage payments for certain categories of workers.

In 1965 he traveled to North Korea and China. Later he was invited to the Soviet Union to the 48th anniversary of the Russian Republic and to Spain by Spanish trade unions to study their initiatives.

Sotomayor died in March 2013.