Jorge Burgos

Jorge Burgos (born 24 June 1956) is a Chilean lawyer and politician. He was Defense Minister until May 11, 2015 and Interior Minister until 8 June 2016.

In May 2006, he was elected vice president of the Christian Democratic Party (DC). Following the resignation of Soledad Alvear as party president on 28 October 2008, he left his position as vice president and assumed the presidency of the DC until 5 December 2008, when the National Board elected a new leadership.

Biography Burgos was born on 24 June 1956 in Santiago, Chile.

He resigned from the Christian Democratic Party in 2019 in order to join the Electoral Qualification Court (Tricel). In late September 2022, he signed the founding charter of the political movement Amarillos por Chile. He left that organization in late May 2025.

He served on the standing committees on Citizen Security and Drugs; National Defense; and Constitution, Legislation and Justice.

For the November 2013 parliamentary elections, he decided not to seek re-election for a new term.