Giorgio Jackson

Jackson in a student march.

In 2008, Jackson joined the center-left student movement New University Action (NAU). As president of the Student Federation of the Catholic University, he was one of the main leaders of the student movement during 2011 along with the president of the Student Federation of the University of Chile, Camila Vallejo, and the president of the Federation of Students of the University of Santiago de Chile, Camilo Ballesteros. In his role as spokesperson of the Confederation of Students of Chile (Confech), Jackson was one of the most critical of the proposals of the government of Sebastián Piñera.

Jackson intervened in various official meetings, one of the most important of which was held in front of the Education Commission of the Senate of Chile, where he argued for "a moral imperative that the State be a guarantor of rights and not consumer goods". He also made a trip to Europe together with Camila Vallejo and Francisco Figueroa, where they spoke to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Jackson avoided referring to a future political career during the protests of 2011, stating that it was not in his immediate plans. However, on January 7, 2012 he launched a political movement called the Democratic Revolution.

In December 2012, he announced that he would run as a candidate for deputy for Santiago in the 2013 parliamentary elections. Although he ran as an independent candidate, he was supported by the Nueva Mayoría centre-left parties, which decided not to run candidates for the district. Jackson chose to have a campaign funded exclusively by his supporters, excluding corporate and anonymous donations. On November 17, he was elected as a deputy with 48.17% of the votes of his district. Jackson is one of the four student leaders who were elected deputies in those elections, along with Camila Vallejo, Gabriel Boric and Karol Cariola. On November 21, he declared his support for the candidacy of Michelle Bachelet on behalf of the Democratic Revolution party.

Giorgio Jackson celebrating with Gabriel Boric after Boric's election as President of Chile in 2021.

Jackson took up his position as deputy on March 11, 2014. In the Congress he sat on the Permanent Commissions of Education. He also participated in the Citizen Security Commission, managing the creation of a commission investigating the role of the police in the most vulnerable sectors of the country.

From 2016 onwards, Jackson has played a role in the construction of Broad Front, a coalition of various leftist political forces and citizen movements which was founded for the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2017, and supported the presidential candidacy of Beatriz Sánchez.

In the elections of November 19, 2017, Jackson retained his seat with the most votes of any deputy. He said on a number of occasions that he would not stand for a third term.

Jackson was the head of Gabriel Boric's 2021 presidential election campaign.[9] Following Boric's victory, Jackson was mentioned as a possible Interior Minister.[10]