Valentina Becerra

Valentina Becerra
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
11 March 2026
Constituency13th District
Personal details
Born (1994-10-26) 26 October 1994
PartyRepublican Party
Alma materAutonomous University of Chile
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionSpeech therapist

Valentina Becerra Peña (born 26 October 1994) is a Chilean politician and member of the Republican Party.[1]

She was elected as Member of the Chamber of Deputies for the 13th District—which comprises the communes of El Bosque, La Cisterna and Lo Espejo—in the 2025 Chilean parliamentary election.

She obtained 22,199 votes (5.98%), securing one of the seats allocated to the Republican Party within the district.[2]

Biography

She was born in El Bosque on 26 October 1994. Her parents are Antonio Peña Castillo and Juliana Becerra Toro. She completed her secondary education at the Instituto Politécnico San Miguel Arcángel in 2012.[3] She is a speech therapist who graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Chile in 2017. In 2022 she obtained a diploma in Speech Fluency Disorders from the University of Concepción.[3]

In her professional career, she provided private home speech therapy services between January 2018 and June 2023. She worked for more than four years (April 2019 to June 2023) at Master School in the commune of Lampa.[3]

For more than three years (October 2019 to June 2023) she worked at the private center Fluir+ Abordaje Clínico de la Tartamudez. She later worked full time at the Hospital de Carabineros.[3] She volunteered with Teletón in 2017 (February–September) in the program Encontrémonos, and with the Corporación ELA Chile in 2019 (January–June).[3]

She is the founder and president of the Fundación Sangre Verde, an organization dedicated to providing support to members of Carabineros de Chile and their families.[3]

Political career

In the parliamentary elections of 16 November 2025, she ran for deputy for the 13th District of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, representing the Republican Party within the Cambio por Chile coalition. She was elected with 22,199 votes, equivalent to 5.98% of the total valid votes cast.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Diputadas republicanas defienden rol de Primera Dama tras dichos de Karamanos: "Increíblemente hipócrita"". T13. 2025-12-24. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
  2. ^ "Los diputados electos para el periodo 2026-2030". Cooperativa. 2025-11-17. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Valentina Becerra Peña". Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 13 March 2026.