Emeliana Aiza
Emeliana Aiza | |
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Official portrait, 2014 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Potosí | |
| In office 19 January 2010 – 18 January 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Miriam Flores |
| Succeeded by | Julio Huanca |
| Constituency | Party list |
| Substitute 31 January 2006 – 19 January 2010 | |
| Deputy | Severo Pacaja |
| Preceded by | Anacleto Gabriel |
| Succeeded by | Rita Callahuara |
| Constituency | Circumscription 41 (Chayanta) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Emeliana Aiza Parada 10 May 1980 Huayraña, Potosí, Bolivia |
| Party | Movement for Socialism |
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Emeliana Aiza Parada (born 10 May 1980) 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. A member of the Movement for Socialism, she represented the same department as a substitute alongside Severo Pacaja from 2006 to 2010.
Orphaned at a young age, Aiza spent much of her early life working agricultural and farming jobs in her rural community. Starting in the late 1990s, she began rising through the ranks of northern Potosí's trade syndicates, capping off her union career as a member of the Chayanta Regional Women's Center. The position opened the way for a career in politics, a product of the peasant movement's alignment with the Movement for Socialism.
In 2005, following an unsuccessful bid for a seat on the Ocurí Municipal Council, Aiza was elected as a substitute member of the Chamber of Deputies. She won her own seat in the 2009 election, becoming one of the rare few members of the Movement for Socialism to achieve reelection. Elected deputy leader of her party's caucus in the lower chamber, Aiza twice assumed full leadership due to the resignation or absence of her predecessors. She was not nominated for a third term.