Silvia Patricia Núñez Ramos is an

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ian engineer turned politician in the

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. She was elected to the National Assembly in 2021 and re-elected in 2023.

Life

In 2004, she studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Ambato. In 2011, she earned her master's degree at the in the management of social projects. The following year, she completed a one-year training program at the Higher School of Chimborazo Polytechnic. In 2020, she taught at the Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo. She was elected to represent Chimborazo at the National Assembly in 2021. The sitting President of the assembly, Guadalupe Llori, was voted out at the end of May. Núñez said she voted against Guadalupe Llori because that was the recommendation. In September 2022 she filed charges with the Legislative Administration Council against fellow Assembly member and president of the Oversight Commission

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. She said that he had called her a pig and "

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" on social media. Villavicencio, was suspended from the Assembly for 31 days after consideration by the President of the Assembly and two others. She takes part in the recovery effort following the

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in the

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in March 2023. The President of Ecuador

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brought in the constitution clause number 148 known as Mutual death in May 2023 when he knew that he was about to be impeached. This required all of the National Assembly members to stand for

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. Herrara and 67 others stood for re-election and she was one of the 43 re-elected later that year. The others included

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and

Patricia Mendoza Patricia Monserrat Mendoza Jiménez is an Ecuadorian politician from the Democratic Center party. She attends the National Assembly on behalf of the Province of Esmereldas after the 2021 election. Life She qualified as a lawyer at the Central U ...

. She returned to the assembly for the Citizen Revolution party and in November 2023 she was elected to the Assembly's commission on ''Food Sovereignty and Development of the Agricultural and Fisheries Sector''. It was led by Jaminton Intriago - and Marjorie Rosado as President and vice-president. The other members were

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, Andrea Rivadeneira, Eduardo Mendoza,

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, Mónica Palacios and Roberto Cuero.

References

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