Lidia Patty | |
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_Alejandra_Vaca,_Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Bolivia.jpg) Official portrait, 2016 | |
| Consul of Bolivia to Puno | |
| In office 1 June 2023 – 13 June 2023 | |
| President | Luis Arce |
| Preceded by | Felipa Huanca |
| Succeeded by | TBD |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz | |
| In office 1 February 2018 – 3 November 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Manuel Canelas |
| Succeeded by | Freddy López |
| Constituency | Party list |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz | |
| In office 23 January 2015 – 1 February 2018 | |
| Deputy | Manuel Canelas |
| Preceded by | María Alanoca |
| Succeeded by | Virginia Alanoca |
| Constituency | Party list |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lidia Patty Mullisaca 7 June 1969 Charazani, La Paz, Bolivia |
| Political party | Movement for Socialism |
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| Signature | _Lidia_Patty.svg) |
Lidia Patty Mullisaca (born 7 June 1969) is a Bolivian politician and trade unionist. A member of the Movement for Socialism, Patty represented La Paz in the Chamber of Deputies, first as a substitute alongside Manuel Canelas from 2015 to 2018 and later as a voting member until 2020. She later served as consul of Bolivia to Puno, Peru, in June 2023 and has been vice consul of Bolivia in La Plata, Argentina, since September 2023.
An ethnic Kallawaya from Charazani in the Bautista Saavedra Province, Patty worked in domestic service before being employed as a rural schoolteacher. Starting from the mid-1990s, she became active in political activism and joined the Bartolina Sisa Confederation, serving as the organization's provincial executive and later departmental secretary. Around this time, she joined the nascent Movement for Socialism, with which she entered electoral politics in 1999. She won her first race for a seat on the Charazani Municipal Council in 2004 and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2014.
Having kept a low profile while in office, Patty gained national notoriety following the conclusion of her term. She was the principal complainant in the Coup d'état Case, which resulted in the criminal prosecution of former president Jeanine Áñez and many other military and political actors in the country's 2019 crisis. A polemic figure for her frequent denunciations of both opposition and some ruling party officials alike, Patty launched an unsuccessful bid to become ombudsman of Bolivia in 2022.
After briefly being considered for the post of ambassador to Paraguay, Patty was designated consul to Puno, Peru, in 2023. Amid deteriorating relations between both countries, the Peruvian government requested the annulment of her appointment, and the Bolivian Foreign Ministry withdrew her from the country shortly thereafter.