Mario Acuña Cisternas

His political activities began when he was elected secretary-general of his school’s student council. At university, he stood out as a leader of the Student Federation and as a student delegate to the University Reform Commission of Valdivia.^[2]

During his university years, he joined the Christian Democratic Party and served as university president of the party. Later, he assumed the position of first communal vice president of the party in Villarrica and acted as delegate of the party’s professionals and technicians to the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia.^[2]

In the 1989 parliamentary elections, he was elected deputy representing the Christian Democratic Party for District No. 52, in the IX Region of La Araucanía, serving from 1990 to 1994.^[2] In 1993 he was re-elected for the same district (1994–1998), and in 1997 he obtained a third consecutive term (1998–2002).^[2]

After completing his third parliamentary term, he was not re-elected for a fourth term in District No. 52. He ran again for the same district in 2005 but was unsuccessful.^[2]

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