Raúl Saldívar

Raúl Fernando Saldívar Auger (born 26 December 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.

Early life and education Saldívar was born on June 2, 1951, in Coquimbo, Chile. He is the son of Pedro Raúl Saldívar Ramos and Elvira Cristina Auger Díaz.

He is married to María Angélica Astorga Silva and is the father of two daughters, Natalia and Priscila.

He completed his secondary education at the Liceo de Hombres de La Serena (Gregorio Cordovez High School), graduating in 1971. In 1982, he graduated from the University of La Serena with a degree as a State Teacher in Arts, Music, and Dance.

After qualifying as a teacher, he worked in various educational establishments in the Province of Elqui. In 1994, he undertook studies toward a Master’s degree in Education Sciences through a joint program of the University of La Serena and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Between 1994 and 2010, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the University of La Serena. From 1996 to 2004, he served as an academic at the same institution. In 1995, he received the Fidelso scholarship to pursue further training in public management in Valencia, Spain.

In 1999, he obtained a diploma in Public Management within the Framework of State Modernization from Instituto Profesional La Araucana. Between 2000 and 2004, he was also an academic at Instituto Profesional Valle Central. In 2010, he earned a diploma in Management and Public Policies in Education from the University of Chile. In 2012, he completed a master’s degree in Educational Management from the Euro-American Forum for Educational Development (FEDE).

Political career Saldívar is a member of the Socialist Party of Chile.

In the 1992 municipal elections, he was elected Mayor of the Municipality of La Serena representing the Socialist Party of Chile, serving for a two-year term. He was succeeded in the subsequent period by Adriana Peñafiel Villafañe.

In the 2000 municipal elections, he was elected Municipal Councillor of La Serena. During the same period (2000–2004), he concurrently served as Governor of the Province of Elqui, having been appointed by President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle and later ratified by President Ricardo Lagos.

In the 2004 municipal elections, Saldívar was elected Mayor of La Serena and was re-elected in the 2008 municipal elections, serving two consecutive terms.

He later became a pre-candidate for mayor of La Serena in the 2012 municipal elections and participated in the primary elections organized by the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia, where he was defeated by candidate Roberto Jacob.

In the parliamentary elections of November 2017, Saldívar was elected Deputy for the 5th District of the Coquimbo Region, representing the Socialist Party of Chile within the La Fuerza de la Mayoría coalition. He served for the 2018–2022 legislative period after obtaining 11,077 votes, equivalent to 4.78% of the validly cast ballots.