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He had been in the world of private business for 22 years, as a manager at D&S (the group that owns the Líder supermarket chain under the Wallmart umbrella) when a fortuitous event pushed Cristóbal Lira Ibáñez (1957) to enter the public service.
Turns out that after the devastating earthquake of 2010Lira, according to himself on his LinkedIn account, volunteered to help rebuild the country. With his experience in product distribution work, the then President Sebastián Piñera appointed him as Executive Secretary of the Emergency and Reconstruction Committee, where he was in charge of distributing boxes of merchandise and building emergency housing.
From there he did not stop. In 201, Lira -commercial engineer from the Adolfo Ibáñez University and reservist for the Air Force-, assumed as the first Undersecretary of Crime Prevention, a position he held until the end of Piñera’s first government, and in 2016 he applied to be councilor for Lo Barnechea as independent pro UDI.
That was when November 2019 arrived, and Mayor Felipe Guevara (RN) resigned from his position to assume as Mayor of the Metropolitan Region. Following the norm, the municipal council had the mission of choosing the successor, and it was Lira the chosen one for the position.
More about 2020 primaries
Things of destiny, the primary in Chile We are going to solve the new contender for Lo Barnechea -a bastion commune of the right- has faced Guevara and Lira. The former undersecretary has accused the current mayor’s electoral interventionism in favor of the RN candidate, Consuelo Alvial, who is close to Guevara.
Of course, from the Guevara gate they deny the accusations and have defended themselves by retrucating that they have respected the instructions of the Executive, in order to dispense with the authorities during working hours. In addition, the mayor has denied having participated in meals and campaign events for Alvial. Lira has not stayed still and has complained twice to Piñera himself about it.
Finally, this Sunday Lira prevailed by a large majority over the other letter from Chile Vamos Consuelo Alvial, managing to win his first choice. And remaining with it, as the letter of the ruling party to continue in charge of the commune.
