René Vidal León (7 April 1931 – 12 May 2012) was a Bolivian politician and trade unionist who served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from Chuquisaca from 2010 until his death in 2012.

During this time, he played an active role in the sector's trade syndicates, serving as general secretary of his company's workers' union before being elected to represent the entire industry's laborers.

[5] In contrast to most other trade syndicates – historically leftist in nature – Bolivia's drivers' unions had long been more conservatively oriented, a fact that led the political right to frequently benefit the sector's leaders with positions of executive and legislative authority.

[6] For his part, Vidal attained his first elective position in the ranks of Nationalist Democratic Action, winning a seat as a substitute member of the Sucre Municipal Council in 1999; a subsequent bid for reelection on behalf of the National Unity Front in 2004 ended in failure.

[7] Furthermore, in a country where the election of legislators older than 70 represents a rare event and those over 75 years of age are exceptional, Vidal stood out as one of the eldest first-term parliamentarians in Bolivian history.