Nelly Núñez Zegarra (16 November 1948 – 10 May 2021) was a Bolivian nurse and politician who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from Oruro, representing circumscription 32 from 2010 to 2015.

[2] She was the penultimate of four children – one boy and three girls – born to José Félix Núñez Navarro, a mineworker, and Benita Zegarra Rocha, a homemaker and weaver.

[5] She had her first of three children shortly thereafter and relocated to Sucre to provide for their education – though she maintained a weekly presence in her home region, where her husband remained as a mine doctor.

She held local leadership roles in the MAS through its rise to government and into 2009, when she was nominated to contest single-member circumscription 32 in the Chamber of Deputies, encompassing parts of Oruro Municipality.

[15] Núñez served as chair of the Human Rights Committee from 2010 to 2011 and was part of Bolivia's delegation to the Latin American Parliament, where she lobbied for the improvement of living conditions for inmates in member states' prison facilities.

[18] Enacted in 2013, the legislation introduced some 500 articles intended to optimize the judicial system with the ultimate goal of minimizing the length of civil litigation to a one-year maximum.

[22] At the same time, Núñez's selection faced discontent from a segment of her caucus, with subsequent allegations of influence peddling on behalf of her daughter leading several colleagues – including her substitute, Benjamín Flores – to file a complaint against her with the Prosecutor's Office.