Felipe Molloja | |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Potosí | |
In office 19 January 2010 – 18 January 2015 | |
Substitute | Alejandra Cazón |
Preceded by | Felipe Flores |
Succeeded by | Fidel Colque |
Constituency | Party list |
Personal details | |
Born | Felipe Molloja Báez 23 August 1956 Chipihuayco, Potosí, Bolivia |
Political party | Fearless Movement (1999–2014) |
Other political affiliations | Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (until 1999) |
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Felipe Molloja Báez (born 23 August 1956) is a Bolivian politician and trade unionist who served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from Potosí from 2010 to 2015. Raised in rural poverty, Molloja developed his career within the Omiste Province's trade union structure, holding leadership roles in various local, provincial, and regional agrarian and peasant syndicates. In 1999, he joined the ranks of the newly founded Fearless Movement, with whom he competed for the Villazón mayoralty in 2004, taking second place and attaining a seat on the municipal council. For the 2009 general elections, as part of his party's alliance with the Movement for Socialism, Molloja was elected to represent Potosí in the Chamber of Deputies. Within months of taking office, the Fearless Movement split with the ruling party, with Molloja joining his compatriots in forming a small breakaway caucus in the lower chamber.