Adolfo Zaldívar

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Miguel Adolfo Zaldívar Larraín (born September 13, 1943), is a former president of the Christian Democrat Party of Chile (Democracia Cristiana, PDC). He is married to María Alicia Larraín Shaux and has six children. He received secondary formation at the Instituto de Humanidades Luis Campino. Then, he went to university at the law faculty of the Catholic University in Chile, which he concluded in 1967. He is a lawyer and professor of constitutional and political law at the law faculty of the Catholic University of Chile. As a partner at the law firm "Irureta, Zaldivar, Briones y Hernández", he worked in his profession until he finished his studies.

In 1965 he became the university party leader of the PDC, and from 1970 to 1972 he occupied the post of national counselor for youth of this party. In the following year he became the national leader of the lawyers of the PDC, and filled this position until 1980. He is a co-founder of the Chilean Commission of Human Rights.

From 1985 to 1988 he was president of the Forum of Political Integration of Chile and Argentina. From 1983 to 1989 he was part of the fiscal commission of the PDC. Then from 1983 to 1990 he worked as national counselor of the PDC, then he became premier national vice-president.

In the elections of December 1993 Zaldívar was elected senator, and formed the senate's mining commission. He went on to form the commission on national defense and the commission of maritime interests, fishing and aquaculture.