Yesenia Yarhui

Yesenia Yarhui
Headshot of Yesenia Yarhui
Official portrait, 2017
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
from Chuquisaca
In office
18 January 2015 – 3 November 2020
Substitute
  • Luis Fernando Paz
  • Willams Vilar
Preceded byVirginia Ramírez
Succeeded byMarcelo Pedrazas
ConstituencyParty list
Personal details
Born
Yesenia Yarhui Albino

(1995-08-16) 16 August 1995 (age 29)
Sucre, Bolivia
Political partyChristian Democratic (2014–2020)
RelativesTomasa Yarhui (aunt)
Alma materUniversity of San Francisco Xavier (LL.B.)
Occupation
  • Lawyer
  • politician
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Yesenia Yarhui Albino (born 16 August 1995) is a Bolivian lawyer, politician, and former student leader who served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from Chuquisaca from 2015 to 2020. An activist forged in the student movement, Yarhui entered politics in 2014 as a candidate on the Christian Democratic Party ballot. Elected in that year's general elections, Yarhui was just 19 years old upon her entry into the Chamber of Deputies, making her the youngest parliamentarian in Bolivian history.