He is a member of the Radical Party and has served as a party leader and current Regional President in the Maule Region.[3]
On 27 January 2003, he was appointed Regional Ministerial Secretary of Transport and Telecommunications of the VII Region.[3]
In March 2006, during the first government of President Michelle Bachelet, he was appointed Intendant of the Maule Region, a position he held between March 2006 and April 2008.[3]
In the 2008 mayoral elections, he ran for Mayor of Talca representing the Concertación, obtaining 30,049 votes, equivalent to 37.86% of the valid votes cast, but was not elected.[3]
For the 2012 mayoral elections, the Concertación held conventional primaries to nominate its candidates. On 1 April 2012, he won the primary against former senator Jaime Gazmuri with 70.67% of the votes and became the coalition’s candidate. In the municipal elections held in October, he obtained 27,267 votes, equivalent to 36.97% of the valid votes cast, and was not elected.[3]
In the following year, he ran for Regional Councillor of the Maule Region and was elected representing the Talca Province for the 2014–2016 term, obtaining 26,248 votes, equivalent to 15.94% of the total votes cast.[3]
In November 2016, he resigned from the position of Regional Councillor, as required by law, in order to run for the Chamber of Deputies of Chile in the 2017 parliamentary elections.[3]
In the parliamentary elections held in 2017, he was elected Deputy for the 17th District of the Maule Region—comprising the communes of Constitución, Curepto, Curicó, Empedrado, Hualañé, Licantén, Maule, Molina, Pelarco, Pencahue, Rauco, Río Claro, Romeral, Sagrada Familia, San Clemente, San Rafael, Talca, Teno, and Vichuquén—representing the Radical Socialdemocratic Party within the La Fuerza de la Mayoría pact for the 2018–2022 term. He obtained 18,390 votes, equivalent to 6.71% of the valid votes cast.[3]
In August 2021, he ran for re-election in the same district for the 2022–2026 term. In November 2021, he was re-elected representing the Radical Socialdemocratic Party within the New Social Pact list, obtaining 14,043 votes, corresponding to 5.81% of the valid votes cast.[3]
He was a candidate for the Senate for Electoral Circumscription No. 9 of the Maule Region in the parliamentary elections held on 16 November 2025, representing the Radical Party within the Unidad por Chile pact. He was not elected, obtaining 32,264 votes, equivalent to 4.62% of the total votes cast.[3]
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