Alejandra Valdebenito

Yesenia Alejandra Valdebenito Torres (born 9 December 1975) is a Chilean midwife and politician from the Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI).

She was elected as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for the 2026–2030 legislative term, representing the 27th District (Aysén Region).

Biography She was born in Concepción on December 9, 1975. Her parents are Héctor Valdebenito Pereira and Magdoli del Tránsito Torres Díaz. She is the mother of two children. She studied Obstetrics and Childcare at the University of Concepción, graduating as a midwife in 1999.

Riquelme holds several diploma certificates, including Human Sexuality at the Diego Portales University, Family Health Center Management and Public Health at the University of Chile, Management for supervising midwives in self-managed networked establishments at the Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Care Management at Medwave Chile, Social Leadership at BiblioRedes, and Gender Equality and Work–Life Balance at the Institute of Arts and Communication Sciences (IACC).

She also completed a master's degree in Hospital Administration at the Universidad Autónoma de Chile. She has worked professionally at the Regional Hospital of Coyhaique and served as president of the Aysén Regional Council of the College of Midwives.

She is currently a student of Public Administration, a field she pursued to strengthen her contribution to the management and development of the Aysén Region.

Political career She has dedicated more than twenty years to maternal and child health and public service.

She served as Regional Ministerial Secretary of Health (Seremi) in Aysén during the second administration of Sebastián Piñera, between 2018 and 2021, during which she faced the COVID-19 pandemic.

She first ran for public office in the 2021 parliamentary elections, as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies for the 27th District of the Aysén Region, representing the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) within the Chile Podemos Más coalition, but was not elected, finishing fourth with 3,608 votes (9.53%).

She ran again for the Chamber of Deputies for the 27th District in the elections of November 16, 2025, representing the UDI within the Chile Grande y Unido coalition. She was elected with 6,451 votes, equivalent to 10.35% of the total.