María Alejandra Barrales Magdaleno (born 17 July 1967) is a Mexican lawyer and politician and the former president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution.

El caso de la Asamblea Legislativa del DF”)[5] Her early career took place in the aviation industry.

[1] Barrales fully joined the PRD in 2002, the same year she briefly served as a social welfare coordinator in the government of Michoacán.

[1][10] She was the PRD faction's spokeswoman in the legislature and sat on five commissions including Government, Public Security, Political-Electoral Matters, Sports, and Administration Committee.

[1] After her 2006 campaign to head the delegation of Benito Juárez[11] failed, the PRD placed her in the Mexico City government as the secretary of tourism.

[11] While she sought to run for mayor of Mexico City in 2012, she eventually pulled out of the internal discussions to clear a path for Miguel Ángel Mancera.

[15] In 2018, she ran for the Head of Government of Mexico City as the candidate for Por México al Frente[17] but lost to Claudia Sheinbaum.