Sergio Velasco

Sergio Velasco de la Cerda (born 21 December 1945) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.

Among other roles, he was president of the Juan Pablo II Institute, a Christian humanist organization dedicated to the study and promotion of social, cultural, educational, labor, community, and trade union rights in the province of San Antonio. He married Lucía del Carmen Menares Maldonado and is the father of three children.

He completed his secondary education at the Liceo de San Antonio.

He worked as a teacher of Social Sciences and Human Relations. He also served for a time as Director of the Industrial School of San Antonio and of the DUOC Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in that city.

Political career He began his political career upon joining the Christian Democratic Party, and was elected three times as provincial president of his party in San Antonio.

After the 1973 military coup, he actively participated in efforts to restore democracy. He presided over the "Justice and Peace" Commission, founded after 11 September 1973, in defense of human rights. He also assumed the presidency of the "Group of 24," focused on constitutional studies in San Antonio.

In the 1989 parliamentary elections, he was elected deputy for District No. 15 (Algarrobo, Cartagena, Casablanca, El Quisco, El Tabo, San Antonio and Santo Domingo), Fifth Region, for the 1990–1994 term, obtaining the highest district vote with 25,429 votes (37.38%).

In 1997 he again ran as candidate for deputy for District No. 15 and was elected for the 1998–2002 term, obtaining 14,566 votes (21.54%). In 2001 he sought re-election for the 2002–2006 term but was not re-elected.

In 2005 he resigned from the Christian Democratic Party after the party decided to nominate another candidate for District No. 15. He then ran as an independent but was not elected.