Luis Lemus

Luis Segundo Lemus Aracena (born 23 December 1961) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy from 2010 to 2018.

Family and early life Lemus was born on 23 December 1961 in Illapel. He is the son of Luis Antonio Lemus Robles and Rosa Ermelina Aracena Aracena. He is single and the father of four children: Luis Felipe and Fernando Lemus Cortés, Fernanda Lemus Rivadeneira and Rocío Lemus Nilo.

He completed his primary education at the Juan Carrasco Risco Municipal School (former No. 1) in Illapel and his secondary education at the Pablo Rodríguez Caviedes Municipal Polytechnic High School in the same city.

He holds a degree in Mathematics and qualified as a secondary school teacher from the University of La Serena.

Political career In 1992, he was elected mayor of the Municipality of Illapel representing the Socialist Party of Chile, serving four consecutive terms (1992–1996, 1996–2000, 2000–2004 and 2004–2008). In the 2004 municipal election, he received 82.11% of the vote, becoming the most voted mayor in Chile at the time.

In 2006, he presided over the Association of Rural Municipalities, which brings together mayors and councillors from 12 communes in the Coquimbo Region, and between 2007 and 2009 he served on its board.

He joined the Socialist Party in the early 1980s and resigned in July 2009 after not being nominated as a candidate for deputy. He subsequently joined the Regionalist Party of the Independents (PRI), but resigned from that party on 10 March 2010, the day before assuming office as deputy, remaining independent for a period.

In May 2011, he rejoined the Socialist Party of Chile.