Edmundo Novillo | |
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Minister of Defense | |
Assumed office 9 November 2020 | |
President | Luis Arce |
Preceded by | Luis Fernando López |
1st Governor of Cochabamba | |
In office 30 May 2010 – 31 May 2015 | |
Preceded by | Jorge Ledezma (as prefect) |
Succeeded by | Iván Canelas |
President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 22 January 2006 – 22 January 2010 | |
Preceded by | Norah Soruco |
Succeeded by | Héctor Enrique Arcé Zaconeta |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Cochabamba | |
In office 6 August 2002 – 22 January 2010 | |
Constituency | Circumscription 29[1] |
Personal details | |
Born | Edmundo Novillo Aguilar 28 January 1963 Totora, Cochabamba, Bolivia |
Political party | Movement for Socialism |
Edmundo Novillo Aguilar (born 28 January 1963) 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]