Andrés Alfonso Valderrama Jouannet (born 29 July 1967) is a Chilean school teacher, writer and politician currently serving in the

Chamber of Deputies of Chile The Chamber of Deputies () is the lower house of Chile's Bicameralism, bicameral National Congress of Chile, Congress. Its organisation and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of Chile's current Chilean Constitution of 1980, ...

from District 23 on the ticket of AMA party since 2022. He previously served as the mayor of

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during the second government of

Michelle Bachelet Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (; born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018, becoming the first woman to hold the presidency. She was re-elected in December ...

Career

Andrés Jouannet became a politician at the teen age of 17 when became active member of the Christian Democratic Youth of Chile. He was the president of the youth organization at the Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco and became close an ally of Gutenberg Martínez and Soledad Alvear. He served as a political secretary to former president Patricio Aylwin for five years. During the first government of President Michelle Bachelet he was appointed governor of the province of Cautín but resigned form the position in 2008 same he was appointed to run for the house of Deputies election in District 52 scoring 8,988 votes placing fourth position in the contest. He was appointed to the second government of Bachelet in 2014 as an advisor on indigenous affairs in the Ministry of Interior and later appointed Mayor of the Araucanía Region on 25 August 2015, replacing Francisco Huenchumilla. He left this position in 2016 to run in the 2017 parliamentary election which he lost. He ran again in 2021 as an independent candidate supported by Radical Party scoring 3.35 per cent of the votes to win the seat.

References

Living people University of La Frontera alumni University of Chile alumni Heidelberg University alumni Chilean writers Chilean academics 1967 births Christian Democratic Party (Chile) politicians Members of Amarillos por Chile Deputies of the LVI Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile {{Chile-Deputy-stub