Luis Monge Sánchez

José Luis Monge Sánchez (born 20 September 1948) is a Chilean politician who served as a deputy.

Biography He was born on 20 September 1948 in Santiago, the son of José Luis Monge Smith and María Josefa Sánchez Bunster. He married Sara Valdés Sánchez and is the father of seven children.

He completed his primary and secondary education at Colegio Verbo Divino in Santiago. He later entered the Faculty of Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he earned a degree in Legal and Social Sciences. He was admitted as a lawyer before the Supreme Court of Chile on 18 June 1973.

Professionally, he practiced law privately between 1973 and 1998. At the same time, from 1971 to 1988, he was engaged in agricultural activities.

Political career He began his political activities as a student leader in the Gremialist Movement at the Catholic University. During this period, he served as a member of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Students Federation (FEUC) and as Vice President of the Student Center of the Law School.

He held various positions in agricultural organizations. Between 1972 and 1974, he was director of the National Confederation of Small and Medium Farmers, and from 1973 to 1983, director of the National Confederation of Agricultural Producers.

From 1980 to 1991, he served as President of the Federation of Agricultural Organizations of Malleco. Between 1991 and 1996, he was director and councillor of the National Agriculture Society (SNA), becoming its vice president in 1997.

In the parliamentary elections of December 1997, he was elected deputy as an independent on the Unión por Chile list for District No. 48, Araucanía Region, representing the communes of Angol, Collipulli, Ercilla, Los Sauces, Lumaco, Purén, Renaico, and Traiguén, for the 1998–2002 term. He obtained the highest vote in the district with 17,454 votes (27.92%).

In 2001, he ran for re-election in District No. 48 but did not retain his seat in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile.