Manuel José Ossandón

Manuel José Ossandón Irarrázabal
Senator of Santiago, president of the Senate
Assumed office
2025
Senator of Santiago
In office
11 March 2014  2022
Preceded byEna von Baer
Mayor of Puente Alto
In office
6 December 2000  6 December 2012
Preceded bySergio Roubilard
Succeeded byGermán Codina
Mayor of Pirque
In office
6 September 1992  6 December 2000
Preceded byHernan Prieto
Succeeded byAlejandro Rosales
Personal details
Born (1962-08-24) 24 August 1962
Viña del Mar, Chile
Political partyRenovación Nacional (2004–2016)
ChildrenEight (among them, Manuel)
RelativesXimena Ossandón (sister)
OccupationPolitician
Professionagricultural technician

Manuel José Ossandón Irarrázabal, colloquially Cote Ossandón, (born 24 August 1962 in Viña del Mar, Región de Valparaíso) is an agricultural technician and a senator of Chile for the 7th Senatorial District, for the period 2022–2030. He became president of the Senate on 26 March 2025. He was a member of Chilean center-right party Renovación Nacional (RN), but he renounced it in July 2016.