Sergio Ojeda Uribe (12 March 1943 â 22 March 2026) was a Chilean politician who served as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile.
Ojeda served as president of the Bar Association of Osorno and vice president of the Valdivia Bar Association.
Sergio Ojeda Uribe was born on 12 March 1943 in Riachuelo, the son of Manuel Fabriciano Ojeda Caro and MarÃÂa Paulina Uribe Inostroza. He was married to MarÃÂa Mercedes Schmidt and was the father of four children.
He completed his primary education at former School No. 5 in Osorno and his secondary education at the Liceo de Hombres of the same city. He later studied law at the University of Concepción, where he obtained his law degree.
Professionally, he practiced as a lawyer, providing legal advice to politically dismissed professionals and defending agricultural workers in Osorno. He also acted as legal adviser to several trade unions in collective bargaining processes.
Ojeda worked for Diario Austral and served as a commentator on regional radio stations. He founded the Association of Mortgage Debtors of Osorno and served as president of the Association of Academics of the Professional Institute of Osorno, now the University of Los Lagos.
He died on 22 March 2026, at the age of 83.
Ojeda Uribe began his political activities as a member of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) in Osorno. He later served as the first president in Osorno of the Democratic Alliance, a political coalition active between 1983 and 1987. In parallel, he chaired the local Human Rights Commission and co-founded the Center for Local Progress.
In 1988, in the run-up to the 1988 presidential referendum, he was elected president of the Concertación de Partidos por el No in his region. He later served as communal and provincial president of the PDC.
Between 1990 and 2018, he served seven consecutive terms in the Chamber of Deputies, representing the former 55th district for the PDC.