The Regional Council of the Biobío Region (Spanish: Consejo Regional de la Región del Biobío), commonly known as CORE Biobío, is the regional council of the Biobío Region in Chile. It serves as the normative, decision-making, and oversight body within the Regional Government and is responsible for ensuring citizen participation in regional public administration and exercising the powers conferred upon it by the relevant organic constitutional law.
The council is composed of 28 regional councillors elected by popular vote for four-year terms, with the possibility of up to two re-elections. Territorial representation is organized into provincial constituencies, distributed in three constituencies in Concepción Province, one constituency in Biobío Province and one constituency in Arauco Province.Servel determined the number of Regional Councillors and Municipal Councillors for the October 2024 elections Councillors serve four-year terms and may be re-elected. Until 2021, the council elected a president from among its members by absolute majority; following a constitutional reform enacted in 2020, the presidency of the regional council is held by law by the Regional Governor.
Current Regional Council The Regional Council of the Biobío Region for the 2025–2029 term is composed of the following councillors:
Constituency Councillor Party Term Concepción I (North) Christian Arellano Vera Republican Party Since 6 January 2025 Jaime Peñailillo Garrido Independent – Socialist Party of Chile Since 6 January 2025 Larry Sandoval Lara Independent Democratic Union Since 6 January 2025 Luis Santibáñez Bastidas Republican Party Since 6 January 2025 Marcelo Rivera Arancibia Radical Party of Chile Since 6 January 2025 Pedro Seguel Monsalve Social Christian Party (Chile, 2022) Since 6 January 2025 Concepción II (Centre) Alan Bastías Urrutia Democrats (Chile) Since 6 January 2025 Claudio Lapostol Vargas Republican Party Since 6 January 2025 Patricio Kuhn Artigues Independent Democratic Union Since 6 January 2025 Pedro Venegas Castro Christian Democratic Party (Chile) Since 6 January 2025 Yanina Contreras Álvarez Social Christian Party (Chile, 2022)Elected in the 2021 elections for Renovación Nacional. Since 11 March 2022 Yasna Jaramillo Riquelme Republican Party Since 6 January 2025 Concepción III (South) Américo Mondaca Daza Republican Party Since 6 January 2025 Andrés Arroyo Muñoz Social Christian Party (Chile, 2022) Since 6 January 2025 Anselmo Peña Rodríguez Renovación Nacional Since 6 January 2025 Francisco Reyes Aguayo Party for Democracy Since 6 January 2025 Gonzalo Osorio Rioseco Broad Front (Chile) Since 6 January 2025 Tamara Concha Cabrera Communist Party of Chile Since 6 January 2025 Biobío Ignacio Fica Espinoza Renovación Nacional Since 6 January 2025 Juan Carlos Villanueva Cabas Christian Democratic Party (Chile) Since 6 January 2025 Juan Medina Martínez Independent – Radical Party of Chile Since 6 January 2025 María Núñez Ramírez Republican Party Since 6 January 2025 Robert Córdova Bustos Independent – Socialist Party of Chile Since 11 March 2022 Enrique Krause Lobos Independent Democratic Union Since 6 January 2025 Arauco Angelo Millamán López Republican Party Since 6 January 2025 Christopher Gengnagel Carrasco Renovación Nacional Since 11 March 2018 Cristian Medina Cea Independent – Independent Democratic Union Since 6 January 2025 Leonidas Peña Henríquez Communist Party of Chile Since 11 March 2022
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