Andrés Alfonso Valderrama Jouannet (born 29 July 1967) is a Chilean school teacher, writer and politician currently serving in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile from District 23 on the ticket of AMA party since 2022.
[1][2] Andrés Jouannet became a politician at the teen age of 17 when became active member of the Christian Democratic Youth of Chile.
He was the president of the youth organization at the Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco and became close an ally of Gutenberg Martínez and Soledad Alvear.
During the first government of President Michelle Bachelet he was appointed governor of the province of Cautín but resigned form the position in 2008 same he was appointed to run for the house of Deputies election in District 52 scoring 8,988 votes placing fourth position in the contest.
He ran again in 2021 as an independent candidate supported by Radical Party scoring 3.35 per cent of the votes to win the seat.