Tomás Lagomarsino

Tomás Ignacio Lagomarsino Guzmán (born 13 July 1990) is a Chilean politician who serves as deputy.

Family and early life He was born in Santiago on 13 July 1990, although he has lived his entire life in Viña del Mar, the son of Anna Lagomarsino Cámara and Juan Guzmán Harboe.

He is single and has no children.

During his youth, he was marked by his participation as a Scout in the Cruz del Sur Group of the Recreo sector. He also learned to play the cello during his time at Rubén Castro School in Viña del Mar, eventually participating in the school’s chamber orchestra.

Professional life He completed his primary education at the Scuola Italiana of Valparaíso and at José Manuel Balmaceda School in Viña del Mar, and his secondary education at Rubén Castro School in Viña del Mar, graduating in 2008.

He later enrolled in the medicine programme at the University of Valparaíso, where he earned his medical degree and qualified as a medical doctor in 2016.

In the exercise of his profession, he has worked mainly in primary health care at the Marco Maldonado and Las Torres Family Health Centres (CESFAM) in Viña del Mar. He has also served as a physician at the Municipal Shelter and at Dr. Gustavo Fricke Hospital in Viña del Mar. In addition, he works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Health of the University of Playa Ancha in Valparaíso.

Political career During his university years, he developed a significant record of social activism, founding the Solidarity Pre-university Programme of the University of Valparaíso and organising other solidarity initiatives, such as the “Teddy Bear Hospital”, as well as health outreach operations in rural areas.

After graduating, he continued to carry out medical outreach operations for people without access to health care, becoming popularly known as the “Doctor of the People”.

He began his political career as a university leader. For two years, he served as president of the National Federation of Medical Students and represented Chile in various national and international forums.

In 2013, he founded and became president of the Equidad Chile Foundation, through which he participated from civil society in the legislative process of initiatives such as the Ricarte Soto Law. He also contributed to other civil society initiatives, including serving as spokesperson for the Social Roundtable for the Right to Health (2019), coordinator of the Senate’s Thematic Roundtable with Civil Society for the Right to Health (2014–2015), and spokesperson on pharmaceutical intellectual property issues for the Chile Better Without TPP platform (2015–2019).

At the professional association level, he served as president of the Association of Municipal Health Workers (AFUSAM) of Viña del Mar.

For the Constitutional Convention elections held on 15 and 16 May 2021, he ran as an independent candidate within The List of the People for the 7th electoral district of the Valparaíso Region. He obtained 12,611 votes, equivalent to 3.81% of the valid votes cast, and was not elected.

Following the constitutional convention elections, in August 2021 he registered his independent candidacy—on a slot provided by the Radical Party of Chile and within the New Social Pact coalition—for the Chamber of Deputies of Chile representing the 7th electoral district of the Valparaíso Region. This district comprises the communes of Viña del Mar, Algarrobo, Valparaíso, Cartagena, Casablanca, Concón, San Antonio, El Quisco, El Tabo, Rapa Nui, Juan Fernández and Santo Domingo. He was elected with the highest vote total in the district, obtaining 26,379 votes, corresponding to 7.40% of the valid votes cast.

Since 5 March 2022, he has been a member of the Radical Party of Chile. In July of that same year, he participated in the party’s internal elections as a candidate for first vice president but was not elected, obtaining 1,826 votes, equivalent to 44.35% of the valid votes cast.

In 2023, he served as campaign manager for three Radical Party candidates running on the All for Chile list for the Constitutional Council: Andrés Sepúlveda (Santiago Metropolitan Region), Carla Allendes (Valparaíso Region) and Christian Inostroza (Valparaíso Region).