Edmundo Novillo
Minister of Defense
Assumed office
9 November 2020
PresidentLuis Arce
Preceded byLuis Fernando López
1st Governor of Cochabamba
In office
30 May 2010 – 31 May 2015
Preceded byJorge Ledezma (as prefect)
Succeeded byIván Canelas
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
22 January 2006 – 22 January 2010
Preceded byNorah Soruco
Succeeded byHéctor Enrique Arcé Zaconeta
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
from Cochabamba
In office
6 August 2002 – 22 January 2010
ConstituencyCircumscription 29[1]
Personal details
Born
Edmundo Novillo Aguilar

(1963-01-28) 28 January 1963
Totora, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Political partyMovement for Socialism

Edmundo Novillo Aguilar (born 28 January 1963 in Totora, Campero Province, Cochabamba) is a Bolivian lawyer, politician, and Governor of Cochabamba. His political career includes serving on the Departmental Council, as Mayor of Totora, and as a Deputy in the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies.[2] He was Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies for four years from 2006 to 2010.[2] He is affiliated with the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP), and was the first MAS-IPSP member to serve a President of the Chamber of Deputies.

Novillo won the 2010 gubernatorial election in Cochabamba with 61.9% of the vote.[3] He was succeeded in 2015 by Iván Canelas.[4] On 9 November 2020, the recently inaugurated President Luis Arce appointed him Minister of Defense.[5] It was announced on 28 December that Novillo had gone into quarantine after contracting COVID-19.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Observatorio del Poder Legislativo en America Latina".
  2. 1 2 "Novillo, el primer gobernador". Los Tiempos. 2010-04-05. Archived from the original on 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2011-04-21.
  3. ↑ Corte Nacional Electoral, Acto de Computo Nacional Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Canelas es Gobernador electo de Cochabamba - Periódico La Patria (Oruro - Bolivia)". Periódico La Patria (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  5. ↑ Bolivia, Opinión. "Exgobernador de Cochabamba asume el Ministerio de Defensa". Opinión Bolivia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  6. ↑ "Dos ministros, Revilla, Chapetón y Reyes Villa tienen coronavirus". www.paginasiete.bo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-01-05.


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