Edmundo Novillo

Edmundo Novillo Aguilar 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. He was Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia|Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies] for four years from 2006 to 2010. He is affiliated with the Movement for Socialism, 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. He was succeeded in 2015 by Iván Canelas. On 9 November 2020, the recently inaugurated President Luis Arce appointed him Minister of Defense. It was announced on 28 December that Novillo had gone into quarantine after contracting COVID-19.