Sergio Jara Catalán

Sergio Jara Catalán (born 9 October 1946) is a Chilean politician who served as a deputy.

Early life and family Jara was born in Los Ángeles on 9 October 1946. He was the son of Evangelina del Carmen Catalán and Raúl Ramón Jara Mayorga. He married Paulette Pérez Nahas, and they have two children.

He studied at public schools in Putaendo and Santa María, and later at the Liceo de Hombres of San Felipe. He entered the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, Valparaíso campus, and later transferred to the Santiago campus, where he earned a degree in Legal and Social Sciences. He was sworn in as a lawyer before the Supreme Court of Chile on 9 June 1980.

Political career In 1971, he joined the Christian Democratic Party. A year later, he became a member of the party's Department of Professionals and Technicians in the Province of Aconcagua. From 1979 to 1985, he served as communal president of the Christian Democratic Party in San Felipe. Between 1981 and 1982, he was delegate to the party's National Board for the Province of Aconcagua. He later served as provincial president and was in charge of the San Felipe area during the campaign for the "No" option in the 1988 plebiscite.

Between 1971 and 1974, he worked as legal procurator for the Private Employees’ Pension Fund in San Felipe and for the Pro-Peace Committee in that city and in Los Andes until 1976. He served as president of the Workers’ Association of the Private Employees’ Pension Fund of San Felipe and of the Youth Department of the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores of Aconcagua between 1972 and 1973. He also acted as legal advisor to the Peasant Confederation "Triunfo", the Workers' Union of the Andina Division of Codelco, the Teachers' Association of San Felipe, the Bishopric of San Felipe, and the Peasant Confederation "Libertad".

In the 1989 parliamentary elections, he was elected Deputy for District No. 11 (Los Andes, San Esteban, Calle Larga, Rinconada, San Felipe, Putaendo, Santa María, Panquehue, Llay-Llay, and Catemu), Fifth Region, for the 1990–1994 term. He obtained the highest vote total in the district with 26,934 votes (26.88% of the validly cast ballots). In 1993, he ran for re-election in the same district for the 1994–1998 term but was not re-elected.