Francisco Eguiguren Correa

Francisco de Borja Eguiguren Correa (Santiago, July 13, 1967) is a Chilean Business Administrator and politician from the National Renewal party (RN).^[1] He was deputy for district No. 5 of the Coquimbo Region.

Son of Gonzalo Alfonso Eguiguren Holdgson and María Consuelo Correa Saavedra. He has 6 children.^[2]

He completed his Basic and Secondary Education at the Tabancura School in Santiago. Later, he began to study law at the Gabriela Mistral University, finally graduating as a Business Administrator.^[3]

For 20 years he dedicated himself to developing his profession in the private sector. In 2000, he moved to La Serena to take over as Manager of the Líder Hypermarket.^[2]

His political and public career began with his activism, in 1987, in the National Renewal (RN) party, at the time of its creation.^[2]

In 2005 he was a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies, in the ranks of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party, in the parliamentary elections of December 11 of that year, for the 7th District, obtaining 16,401 votes equivalent to 18.68% of the votes, without being elected.^[4]

In 2017, he again takes on the challenge of representing the Coquimbo Region in Parliament, this time running for the position of Deputy for the 5th District, which includes the communes of Andacollo, Canela, Combarbalá, Coquimbo, Illapel, La Higuera, La Serena, Los Vilos, Monte Patria, Ovalle, Paihuano, Punitaqui, Río Hurtado, Salamanca and Vicuña, in the Coquimbo Region, as a member of the National Renewal party, obtaining 11,144 votes, equivalent to 4.80% of the votes, and was elected.^[5]