Lucia Placencia

Lucía Shadira Placencia Tapia is a politician at Ecuador's National Assembly representing the Province of Loja. She was a member of the Democratic Left party, but she was expelled after a dispute.

Life Placencia was born in about 1978. Her mother brought her up, after her father died when she was young. She helped her mother with the chickens and growing tomatoes. She studied tourism. After she married they ran a restaurant.

She represents the Province of Loja at Ecuador's National Assembly

In 2021 she organised a craft fair which was mainly led by women entrepreneurs. Thirty stallholders sold their own products at the Plaza de la Cultura in Loja where they were selling to people from that province. In the same year she was supporting a law that would bring in a system for overseeing the way that food was distributed. She noted that the latest figures for malnutrition amongst children dated from 2018. It was hoped that more information may lead to the reduction of malnutrition.

In 2022 there were five Democratic party members who were not voting with the party. The five members were Johanna Moreira, Alejandro Jaramillo, Rocío Guanoluisa, Javier Santos and Placencia. Alejandro Jaramillo and then Johanna Moreira were expelled from the party.

In 2022 she was the vice-president of the National Assembly's Commission for Food Sovereignty and Development of the Agricultural and Fisheries Sector where Mariano Curicama was the President.

Private life Placencia is married and has three children.