Yesenia Yarhui | |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Chuquisaca | |
In office 18 January 2015 – 3 November 2020 | |
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Preceded by | Virginia Ramírez |
Succeeded by | Marcelo Pedrazas |
Constituency | Party list |
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Born | Yesenia Yarhui Albino 16 August 1995 Sucre, Bolivia |
Political party | Christian Democratic (2014–2020) |
Relatives | Tomasa Yarhui (aunt) |
Alma mater | University of San Francisco Xavier (LL.B.) |
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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.