Ana María Bravo

Ana María Bravo Castro (born 3 December 1973) is a Chilean politician who serves as deputy.

Her professional experience has been primarily in public service. Since 1998, she has worked in institutions such as the Council for State Defense, the Municipality of Independencia, the Housing and Urban Development Service of Los Ríos, the Regional Secretariat of the Ministry of National Assets of Los Ríos, and the National Corporation for Indigenous Development (CONADI) in Osorno and Valdivia. She married Luis Antonio Andrade de la Cerda on 10 January 2009 and is the mother of Carolina and Sebastián.

She completed her secondary education in 1990 at Colegio Santa María Cervellón, in the commune of Independencia, Metropolitan Region. In 1992, Bravo entered the Law program at the University of Chile and qualified as a lawyer in 2000.

Political career Her main professional and personal challenge was serving as Regional Secretary of the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism of the Los Ríos Region during the period 2014–2018.

She has been linked to the Socialist Party of Chile (PS) since 2006, initially as a supporter of the Valdivia local branch, and formally obtained party membership in 2008. Within this sphere of political participation, she contributed knowledge and tools through coordinating training activities for women from the Yáñez Zabala and Pablo Neruda neighborhoods via the Foundation for the Promotion and Development of Women (PRODEMU) in Valdivia between 2007 and 2008, as well as providing professional legal assistance in various neighborhoods of the city.

From 2011 to the present, she has served as Regional Electoral Officer for Los Ríos of the Socialist Party, actively participating in the party organization of electoral processes and in various political campaigns.

In the parliamentary elections held on 21 November 2021, she was elected as the first Deputy for the 24th District of the Los Ríos Region—comprising the communes of Corral, Futrono, Lago Ranco, Lanco, La Unión, Los Lagos, Máfil, Mariquina, Paillaco, Panguipulli, Río Bueno and Valdivia—representing the Socialist Party within the Nuevo Pacto Social list. She obtained 1,855 votes, equivalent to 1.29% of the total valid votes cast.

She ran for re-election in the same district in the parliamentary elections of 16 November 2025, representing the Socialist Party within the Unidad por Chile coalition. She was not elected, obtaining 8,010 votes, equivalent to 3.10% of the total votes cast.