Felipe Molloja

Felipe Molloja
Headshot of Felipe Molloja
Official portrait, 2014
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
from Potosí
In office
19 January 2010 – 18 January 2015
SubstituteAlejandra Cazón
Preceded byFelipe Flores
Succeeded byFidel Colque
ConstituencyParty list
Personal details
Born
Felipe Molloja Báez

(1956-08-23) 23 August 1956 (age 68)
Chipihuayco, Potosí, Bolivia
Political partyFearless Movement (1999–2014)
Other political
affiliations
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (until 1999)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • trade unionist

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.