Anghela Mejía Montecinos (born 1 August 1985) is a Bolivian economist and politician who served as a substitute party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies under Franz Choque from Oruro from 2010 to 2014.
Mejía entered political activity in 2008 as a member of Youth x Bolivia (JxB), an autonomist activist group that lobbied for the recognition of self-rule in the Oruro Department.
[1][2] Oruro had been one of five departments that overwhelmingly rejected regional autonomy in a 2006 referendum,[3] but by the time the question was asked again in 2009, over seventy percent of the population voted in support of it.
[10] Though the TSE opted to exclude substitute legislators from its ruling, reasoning that, on average, they resided more in their constituencies than their full-time counterparts,[11] many—like Mejía—were still disqualified because they had taken their companion's seats, thus counting as titular deputies.
[12] Unable to compete in 2015, Mejía sought to return to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2020 elections as a member of the Libre 21 alliance,[13] which sponsored Jorge Quiroga's presidential candidacy.