Patricia Mercado

Patricia Mercado (2016)

Dora Patricia Mercado Castro (born October 21, 1957 in Ciudad Obregón , Sonora ) is a Mexican politician .

Career

Mercado studied economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). During her studies she became politicized at the end of the 1970s through contacts with the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores and subsequently became involved in various non-governmental organizations .

In 1991 Mercado stood as a candidate for the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores for election to the House of Representatives , four years later she took part in the fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing as a representative of Mexico . At the end of the decade, she joined the newly formed Democracia Social . There she ran within the party for the top candidacy in the parliamentary elections in 2000, but lost out to Gilberto Rincón Gallardo . After the lost election, the party dissolved immediately. Mercado founded the México Posible party two years later, which addressed issues such as equality , same-sex marriages , domestic violence , the decriminalization of abortion and the legalization of marijuana . As chairman, she led the party into the 2003 general election, where it received less than 2% of the vote and subsequently dissolved.

In January 2005 Marcado became the founding chairwoman of the Partido Socialdemócrata . In August of that year, she announced her presidential candidacy for the 2006 election and gave the party chairmanship to Alberto Begné Guerra . With a result of 2.7% of the total number of votes, she had no chance, but achieved a record result for a social democratic party in Mexico and also the quorum for the continued existence of the party. Later she tried to regain the party leadership, but failed because of Begné Guerra. She then joined the Convergencia party in 2008 , which was renamed Movimiento Ciudadano in 2011 .

Under Miguel Ángel Mancera , Mercado was appointed to the Mexico City government in 2014 as the secretary responsible for labor, and in July of the following year she was promoted to general secretary of the government. Here she stayed in office until February 2018. She was elected to the Senate in the 2018 federal elections.

Web links

• Senadora Propietario: Mercado Castro, Dora Patricia por la LXIV Legislatura. In: SIL :: Sistema de Información Legislativa-PopUp Legislador / sil.gobernacion.gob.mx. (Spanish).