Josefina Vázquez Mota
Josefina Vázquez Mota (born January 20, 1961 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican politician ( PAN ) and economist.
Life
Josefina Vázquez Mota was born in Mexico City. Her parents Arnulfo Vázquez and Josefina Mota originally came from the north of the Mexican state of Puebla . Josefina is the fourth oldest of a total of seven children. Josefina Vázquez Mota has been married to the computer scientist Sergio Ocampo Muñoz since 1984. The couple has three daughters.
Váquez Mota first did a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional , then studied economics at the Universidad Iberoamericana and at the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE) . After graduating, Vázquez Mota worked as a columnist for newspapers and magazines such as Novedades , El Financiero and El Economista . Before entering politics, she worked for various business organizations and companies. Vázquez Mota also published two books and hosted a business program on TV Azteca .
politics
Vázquez Mota began her political career in Chihuahua , where she had lived with her family since the mid-1980s. She was there for the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), a member of the Secretaria de la Mujer and the Asociación Coordinadora Ciudadana. In 1996 she returned to Mexico City to run for the Cámara de Diputados , the lower house of the Mexican Parliament. At this time she also met the then General Secretary of the PAN, Felipe Calderón . Thanks to her extensive experience in the private sector, she was elected to the Congress of the Union of Mexico on September 1, 2000 and appointed by the Vicente Fox government as the first woman to the Secretaría de Desarrollo Social . She held this post until 2005 when she resigned to work on Felipe Calderón's campaign team. After winning the election, Calderón made her the Secretaría de Educación Pública in 2006 . Her time in the Ministry of Education was marked by several public disputes with the head of the teachers' union Elba Esther Gordillo . After she was re-elected to the Cámara de Diputados in 2009, she resigned as Minister of Education to become the coordinator of the MPs of the PAN. In 2011, she resigned from this position in order to pursue her presidential candidacy.
Presidential candidacy
Although her strongest competitor within the party, Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, was supported by the incumbent President Felipe Calderón , Vázquez Mota won the PAN primaries on February 5, 2012 with 53.2% of the votes and thus became the official candidate in the race to succeed Calderón. She was the first woman ever to be chosen as a presidential candidate by one of the three major Mexican parties (PAN, PRI and PRD) and, compared to her rivals Enrique Peña Nieto ( PRI ) and Andrés Manuel López Obrador ( PRD ), relatively unknown.
In her campaign, Vázquez Mota advertised with the promise that she would fight corruption and organized crime, promote the award of scholarships to young people from poorer backgrounds and with the reform of labor law, the aim of which was to get 400,000 unemployed people into the work process every year reintegrate. She also wants to fight to strengthen women's rights. In security policy, she wanted to maintain the much-criticized line of her predecessors Calderón and Vicente Fox and only withdraw the military from regions in which the police could independently guarantee security.
In the election on July 1, 2012 , Josefina Vazquez Mota achieved third place with a little more than 25% behind the winner Enrique Peña Nieto (PRI) and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (PRD). As in the 2006 presidential election, López Obrador filed a complaint with the national electoral authority IFE. However, after a recount of 54.5% of the votes, Peña Nieto's election victory was confirmed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josefina Vázquez Mota sú buscabiografias.com
- ↑ La CNE da a conocer el resultado definitivo de la elección interna del PAN ( Memento of the original of March 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Vázquez Mota, virtual candidata del PAN a la Presidencia (perfil). (No longer available online.) In: Milenio. February 6, 2012, archived from the original on January 3, 2013 ; Retrieved September 3, 2012 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vázquez Mota, Josefina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican politician (PAN) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |