María Paula Romo


María Paula Romo  is an Ecuadorian politician. She currently serves as Interior Minister under President Lenin Moreno.
She was a member of the Constituent Assembly that crafted Ecuador's current Constitution between 2007 and 2008. She later won a seat at the National Assembly of Ecuador for the period 2009-2013. In 2011 she was ranked fourth among the new faces of Iberoamerican thought by the readers of Foreign Policy, for her "commitment with democracy and women's rights".
She entered politics in 2004 as one of the founders of "Ruptura de los 25", a political leftist movement that participated in the protests that toppled then-president Lucio Gutiérrez. Two years later, Ruptura de los 25 supported Rafael Correa in his successful bid to become Ecuador's President in the Ecuadorian 2006 general election.
The group broke their alliance with Correa in 2010 after he took actions they perceived as authoritarian. Romo participated along Ruptura de los 25 in the 2013 general election in opposition to Correa, but she didn't keep her seat.
President Lenin Moreno chose Romo as Ecuador's Interior Minister on 31 August 2018.