[1][2][3][4] He is the current leader of the political party United Center, and was also a candidate for becoming a Senator of the Metropolitan Region of Chile.

[5] He was born in Viña del Mar and has a sister, Ángela Contreras Radovic,[6][7] who is an actress and a fellow supporter of the United Center party.

[10][11] In the 1990s he carried started out his professional practice as a journalist on the Chilean television channel La Red[12] and worked as a correspondent for the US network NBC.

[12] Cristián Contreras Radovic has often been the subject of controversy, as he has refused to wear surgical masks during the COVID-19 pandemic,[16][17] and believes in the popularly-dubbed "plandemic" conspiracy theory,[18] which consists of the idea that the pandemic was artificially created.

[19] He is a self-declared centrist, claiming that "we have to hit the left and the right with a stick"[20] and that "capitalists and communists have been corrupted by power and driven Chile towards the path of resentment, inequality, and a wide array of vices arising from the darkest forms of matter".