Alexandria Sierra

Alexandria Constanza Sierra y Esparza (born 31 December 1987) is a Valenzuelan politician, student leader, and political scientist who is currently the 25th president of Valenzuela, serving since 1 June 2022. Sierra studied in the University of Valenzuela, and graduated in 2012. As a student representative, she became one of the leading figures of the 2012–2013 Valenzuelan student protests. In 2017, Sierra was elected to the National Assembly representing the Federal Capital District electoral district as a Liberal Democratic candidate.

The 2020 corruption charges of president Luis Ángel Escamilla was one of the leading reasons of Sierra running for the presidency in 2022. On 31 December 2021, exactly on her 34th birthday, Sierra formally declared her candidacy for the upcoming presidential election and she filed her candidacy on 24 January 2022. On 7 May 2022, Sierra defeated Franco of the People's Democratic Alternative, Loyola of the Lucha de Valenzuelanos Democráticos, and Suero of the Christian Social Front, obtaining 60.17% of the votes. She is the youngest president, as well as the first female president of Valenzuela and the youngest state leader in the world, beating Gabriel Boric of Chile by just a year and ten months.

Early life
Alexandria Constanza Sierra y Esparza was born in Catalina on 31 December 1987. Her parents are Portuguese immigrants, and she is the third and middle child. She attended the Severiano Basurto Secondary School, and graduated in 2005.

Student politics and activism
While at university, she joined the political collective Force of the Left (Fuerza de la Izquierda). She was an advisor to the Students' Union of the Law Department in 2008 and became its president in 2009. She also represented students as a university senator from 2010 up until 2012, when she graduated from the University of Valenzuela. After graduating from university, she continued her left-wing activism while working as an attorney

Member of the National Assembly (2017-2022)
Sierra ran in the 2017 parliamentary elections as a Liberal Democratic candidate to represent the Federal Capital District. She was elected by a landslide with 5,134,566 votes (91.65%), the highest number received by any candidate in the district.