Maria Rosa Chala Alencastro (born c. 1965) is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician.

[2][3] The members elected were Victoria Desintonio, María Fernanda Rivadeneira, Sofía Almeida, José Carlos Tuárez, Walter Gomez Ronquillo [es], Christian Cruz and Chalá.

[4] In August 2019 the National Assembly believed that members of the council had behaved unconstitutionally and they had started to review former decisions that a constitutional court had placed outside their jurisdiction.

[5] The assembly had four members removed after a vote in which 84 members voted in favour, José Tuárez, Walter Gómez, Victoria Desintonio and Chala were censored and dismissed from the council.

[5] On 18 December 2019 Chala said that she was initiating legal action concerning her case with the Inter-American Human Rights System.