Daniel Jadue

He joined the Communist Party of Chile in 1993, a day after the signing of the Oslo I Accord. He was secretary of the Directorate of Communist Students and candidate for the University of Chile Student Federation in 1996.

He unsuccessfully ran for congress in 2001 and 2005. He was also a candidate for mayor of Recoleta in 2004, 2008 and finally in 2012 when he won the mayoralty. Today he is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Chile.

Since 2003 he has been President of the La Chimba social and cultural development center in Recoleta (Centro de Desarrollo Social y Cultural La Chimba, de Recoleta), which has maintained, popular high schools, legal assistance, and a system of free professional operations for the neighborhood councils of the Recoleta commune since 2006. The La Chimba center also develops a constant work of popular education for democracy, the empowerment of social leaders and environmental sustainability.

In 2012, supported by the pact For a Just Chile, which groups together different political parties and social organizations in Chile, he ran for the third time in the municipal elections in Recoleta, achieving victory with 41.68% of the votes. As a candidate for mayor, he committed himself to a "citizen and participatory local government program" adhering to the citizen initiative of VotaPrograma, a program that is currently under development thanks to the participation of more than 5000 neighbors who have participated in the PLADECO Community Development Plan.

He ran for the municipal elections of Chile in 2016 to continue as the mayor of the Recoleta commune. He was reelected with more than 56% of the votes among five candidates and managed to integrate four communist councilors into the municipal council out of a total of eight. His term will end in December 2020.