Romilio Gutiérrez

Romilio Guillermo Gutiérrez Pino (born 17 February 1962) is a Chilean politician who served as a parliamentarian from 2010 to 2018.

After moving to Santiago, he served as Director of Education of the Municipality of Las Condes during the mayoralty of Joaquín Lavín. He is the son of Guillermo René Gutiérrez Hernández and María Raquel Pino Campos.

He is married to Sandra Verónica Ruiz Vergara and is the father of three children: José Ignacio, Javiera and Carlos.

Professional career He completed his primary education at the Basic School of Colbún and continued at the Liceo de Hombres A-25 (current Liceo Valentín Letelier). He pursued higher education at the University of Talca, from which he graduated as a teacher of Mathematics and Physics. He also completed a Master’s degree in Education and Human Resources.

Professionally, he worked as a teacher at the School of San Juan de Colbún and later as a physics teacher at the Liceo de Colbún. In parallel, he was part of the Municipal Department of Education and served as Municipal Secretary of Colbún.

Between 1989 and 1996, he served as mayor of the Municipality of Colbún.

Political career He was re-elected deputy for the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), District No. 39, Maule Region, for the 2014–2018 term. He served as a member of the Standing Committees on Sports and Recreation; Education; National Defense; and Ethics and Transparency (chair of the latter between March 2014 and March 2015).

In December 2009, he was elected deputy for the UDI in the Maule Region, District No. 39, for the 2010–2014 legislative period, representing the communes of Colbún, Linares, San Javier, Villa Alegre and Yerbas Buenas. He served as president of the Standing Committee on Education, Sports and Recreation and was a member of the Standing Committees on Poverty Reduction, Planning and Social Development; Water Resources, Desertification and Drought; Ethics and Transparency; and Housing and Urban Development. He was also part of the UDI parliamentary committee.

In the November 2013 parliamentary elections, he was re-elected as deputy for District No. 39, representing the UDI, for the 2014–2018 term.