Ricardo Rincón

Ricardo Enrique Rincón González (born 22 March 1966) is a Chilean politician who served as a parliamentarian from 1998 to 2002, and from 2010 to 2018.

Family and early life Rincón was born on 22 March 1966 in Santiago, Chile. He is the son of Ricardo Rincón Iglesias and Luisa González Cofré. He is the brother of Ximena Rincón and journalist Mónica Rincón.

He is married to Patricia Alejandra Farías Palma and has two children, Exequiel and Rafaela.

Professional career Rincón completed his primary education at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Concepción and his secondary studies at the Instituto de Humanidades in the same city.

He later studied law at the University of Concepción and subsequently at the Pedro de Valdivia University, where he obtained a degree in Legal and Social Sciences. He was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Chile on 22 January 2007.

In his professional career, Rincón worked as a judicial clerk in a private law firm. Between 1994 and 1996, he served as chief of staff to the Intendant of the VI Region. During the same period, he worked as executive secretary of the National Council for the Control of Narcotics (Conace) in the VI Region.

Between 2007 and 2009, he worked as an adviser at the Ministry of Defense.

Political career He joined the Christian Democratic Party while still in secondary school. In 1984, he became secretary general of the Law Students' Center at the University of Concepción.

The following year, and until 1986, he was a member of the General Assembly of the Student Federation of the same university. In 1987, he served as president of the Election Qualification Tribunal and drafted the first statutes of that body.

In 1988, he was appointed general proxy of the "No" option in the plebiscite and became vice president of the university branch of the Christian Democratic Party. For the 1989 parliamentary elections, he served as general proxy for senatorial candidate Arturo Frei Bolívar. In 1995, he was appointed provincial councillor in Rengo.

Between 2007 and 2009, he served as provincial president of District No. 33 of the Christian Democratic Party. In March 2018, he resigned his membership in the Christian Democratic Party.

On 11 January 2021, he announced his candidacy for Regional Governor of the O'Higgins Region, running as an independent candidate.