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Lidia Patty (born 1969) is a Bolivian politician who is a former member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement for Socialism). A member of the Kallawaya – an indigenous people native to western Bolivia – she was a domestic worker and schoolteacher before entering politics. After maintaining a low profile in parliament, Patty gained national attention after her term ended when she opened a complaint for the 2019 Bolivian political crisis, which resulted in the criminal prosecution of former president Jeanine Áñez. A polemical figure for her frequent denunciations of opposition and ruling party officials, Patty ran unsuccessfully in the 2022 election for ombudsman of Bolivia, and was briefly the Bolivian consul to Puno, Peru, in 2023 before being withdrawn amid deteriorating relations between the two countries. This official portrait of Patty as a member of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly was taken in 2016.Photograph credit: Alejandra Vaca