Jaime Sáez Quiroz

Jaime Salvador Sáez Quiroz (born 9 December 1985) is a hotel manager, public administrator, environmental activist and Chilean politician, activist of the Democratic Revolution (RD). Since March 2022, he has served as a deputy of the Republic representing district No. 26 of the Los Lagos Region, for the 2022-2026 legislative period.

Family, studies and work life
He was born in Temuco on December 9, 1985. His parents are Juan Antonio Sáez Henríquez and Mónica Inés Quiroz Reyes. He completed his secondary education at the Pacific Institute of Puerto Montt, finishing it in 2003. He married Nataly Amanda Sáez Muñoz on November 14, 2015.

He studied International Hotel Management at Inacap in Valdivia and has worked most of his life in this field. He has a master's degree in Human Scale Development and Ecological Economics from the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences of the Universidad Austral de Chile. He recently graduated as a Public Administrator from the San Sebastián University. He also worked as an independent consultant in organizational development, business management advice, development support and the management of rural women's organizations.

Political career
He has been a member of the Democratic Revolution since the beginning of the party and was a participant in the creation of the Frente Amplio in the Los Lagos region. As an activist he has participated in various environmental movements.

In 2020, he ventured for the first time as a candidate in a popular vote, in the Frente Amplio gubernatorial primaries for the Los Lagos region. He obtained the nomination, defeating Pamela Leal, Comunes candidate, by a narrow margin. Finally, in the elections for regional governor of Los Lagos he obtained 9.26% of the votes, finishing in last place.

In 2021, he ran as a candidate for deputy for district No. 26 for the parliamentary elections of that year, on the Apruebo Dignidad list and representing the DR. During the campaign he signed a commitment to legislate in favor of the protection of the biodiversity of the Chiloé archipelago. He managed to be elected with 4,776 votes, equivalent to 3.2% of the total votes.

He assumed the position of deputy on March 11, 2022, and currently chairs the permanent commission of Public Works, Transportation and Telecommunications and is a member of the Environment and Natural Resources commissions; and Extreme Zones and Chilean Antarctica. He is part of the Frente Amplio bench.