Miguel Hernández Saffirio

Miguel Hernández
Mayor of Galvarino
In office
6 December 2004 – 6 December 2012
Preceded byMyriam Contreras
Succeeded byFernando Hualquil
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
11 March 1994 – 11 March 2002
Preceded byRoberto Muñoz Barra
Succeeded byJaime Quintana
Constituency49th District
Personal details
Born (1949-07-18) 18 July 1949
PartyChristian Democratic Party (DC)
ChildrenThree
Alma materUniversity of Chile

José Miguel Hernández Saffirio (born 18 July 1949) was a Chilean politician who served as deputy and Intendant of the Araucanía Region.

He joined the Christian Democratic Party (DC), serving as communal vice president in Victoria in 1988 and representing the party in the campaign for the “No” option in the plebiscite of 5 October 1988. Between 1989 and 1990, he was communal president of both the DC and the Concertación in Victoria, later becoming provincial president in Malleco and delegate to the party’s National Board.

He is also a hotel entrepreneur and has written opinion columns for the newspapers Las Noticias (Victoria) and El Austral (Temuco), and participated in local radio stations such as Araucana, Frontera and Copihue FM.