Marcela Lombardo Otero
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Marcela Lombardo Otero (20 March 1926 – 5 March 2018) was a Mexican politician, daughter of the leftist Vicente Lombardo Toledano, founder of the Popular Socialist Party. She was a deputy during the L and LIV Legislatures, from 1976 to 1979 and 1988 to 1991. In the 1988 election, she was the only female candidate from any of the parties that formed the FDN (National Democratic Front, the left wing coalition) to win her seat in congress by majority.
Career
[edit]She was the presidential candidate of PPS (Popular Socialist Party) in the 1994 election, in which she obtained 0.47% of the votes.[1] This result (second to last among nine presidential candidates) implied the loss of the official registry to her party, which was recovered in 1997, and then lost again definitely.
She was the Director of Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Políticos y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano.
References
[edit]- ^ Velazquez, Gabriela (July 8, 2006). "Patricia Mercado, la mexicana con más votos en elección presidencial - El Universal - Elecciones" (in Spanish). El Universal. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
- 1926 births
- 2018 deaths
- Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
- Candidates in the 1994 Mexican presidential election
- Mexican people of Italian descent
- Popular Socialist Party (Mexico) politicians
- 20th-century Mexican politicians
- 20th-century Mexican women politicians
- National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
- Politicians from Mexico City
- Deputies of the L Legislature of Mexico
- Deputies of the LIV Legislature of Mexico
- Mexican politician stubs