Loreto Carvajal

María Loreto Carvajal Ambiado (born 18 May 1973) is a Chilean politician who currently serves at the Senate of Chile.

She previously held the same senatorial seat between 2021 and 2022, replacing Felipe Harboe. Between 2014 and 2021, she served two consecutive terms in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, first representing the 42nd District of the Biobío Region and later the 19th District of the Ñuble Region.

From March 2019 to April 2020, she was First Vice-President of the Chamber, the first deputy from Ñuble to hold that position.

Biography Carvajal was born in Cabrero on 18 May 1973, the daughter of Domingo Arturo Carvajal Carvajal and Matilde Ambiado Melgarejo.

She completed her secondary education at the Verbo Divino German School in Los Ángeles and later studied law at the Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception, though she did not graduate.

Political career A member of the Party for Democracy, Carvajal began her political career as councillor of Cabrero from 2000 to 2009, being re-elected twice.