Edmundo Novillo | |
Office: | Minister of Defense |
President: | Luis Arce |
Term Start: | 9 November 2020 |
Predecessor: | Luis Fernando López |
Order1: | 1st |
Office1: | Governor of Cochabamba |
Term Start1: | 30 May 2010 |
Term End1: | 31 May 2015 |
Successor1: | Iván Canelas |
Order2: | President of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start2: | 22 January 2006 |
Term End2: | 22 January 2010 |
Predecessor2: | Norah Soruco |
Successor2: | Héctor Enrique Arcé Zaconeta |
Order3: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Cochabamba |
Term Start3: | 6 August 2002 |
Term End3: | 22 January 2010 |
Constituency3: | Circumscription 29[1] |
Birth Name: | Edmundo Novillo Aguilar |
Birth Date: | 28 January 1963 |
Birth Place: | Totora, Cochabamba, Bolivia |
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. 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]