Pilar Cuevas

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Pilar Cuevas
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Member of the Constitutional Council
In office
7 June 2023 –7 November 2023
OccupationPolitician

Pilar Alejandra Gema Cuevas Mardones (born 13 March 1964) is a Chilean politician who served as member of the Constitutional Council. [1] [2] Similarly, she served as Intendant of the Aysen Region in Chile. [3]

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She also served as Intendant of the Aysén Region from 2010 to 2014. She was also a member of the Constitutional Council representing the 14th senatorial constituency of the Aysén Region.

Biography

Cuevas was born in Santiago, Chile. She is the daughter of Germán Cuevas Torrealba and María Teresa Mardones Guíñez. [4]

She completed her primary education at Colegio María Inmaculada in Santiago and her secondary education at Instituto Santa María in Chillán. She later studied Law for three years at the University of Concepción. Her academic training was complemented by two postgraduate diplomas: one in Business Management from the Austral University of Chile and another in Pension Sales Management from Finis Terrae University. [5]

Public career

Cuevas began her political career in 1986, when she was appointed Regional Ministerial Secretary of Government in the Aysén Region, a position she held until 1990. [6]

From 2001 to 2010, she served as a Regional Councillor of the Aysén Regional Government. During this period, she chaired the Science, Technology and Innovation Committee, served as secretary of the International Affairs Committee, and was a member of the Productive Development Committee. She also participated in the public–private Tourism Board of the region, the board of the Patagonia Research and Studies Center, and the Strategic Council of the Regional Productive Development Agency. [5]

In 2010, Cuevas was appointed Intendant of the Aysén Region, a position she held until 2014. During the 2017 Chilean presidential election, she served as territorial campaign coordinator for Sebastián Piñera in the Aysén and Magallanes regions. In parallel, she ran as a candidate for the Senate representing Aysén, but was not elected, receiving 4,168 votes. [6]

During Piñera’s second administration, Cuevas held the position of Head of the Municipalities Division at the Subsecretariat for Regional Development and Administrative Reform of the Ministry of the Interior. [5]

In the elections of 7 May 2023, she ran for the Constitutional Council representing the 14th senatorial constituency of the Aysén Region as a candidate of National Renewal within the Chile Seguro electoral pact. She was elected with 9,061 votes. Within the council, she served on the Committee on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights and later joined the Joint Committee tasked with proposing solutions to disputed provisions of the draft new constitution. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Consejera Pilar Cuevas anunció que votará "A favor" de la propuesta constitucional: 'Es superior a la Constitución del 80'". CNN Chile. 18 October 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Consejera Pilar Cuevas (RN) y críticas al proyecto: "Hay muchos titulares, pero no se hace la bajada"" (in Spanish). Radio Bío Bío. 3 October 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Quién es Pilar Cuevas, la consejera por Aysén que fue intendenta" (in Spanish). Lupa Constitucional. 8 May 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Pilar Cuevas Mardones". Proceso Constitucional (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 "Pilar Cuevas Mardones – Constitutional Process 2023". Library of the National Congress of Chile (in Spanish). 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Resultados de las Elecciones Presidenciales, Parlamentarias y Cores 2017 en Chile". Emol.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 December 2025.
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