In the political arena, Ifigenia Martínez has been a prominent figure and one of the main co-founders of the PRI and later the PRD.
By Editorial Staff | El Financiero | June 2, 2024 | Photo Courtesy of Nacion321 | Translated by Google Translate
After the presidential candidate of the Let's Keep Making History coalition, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, announced that she voted in favor of Ifigenia Martha Martínez for the Presidency of the Republic, doubt has been raised about the profile of the activist.
“For the presidency I voted for Ifigenia Martínez. And everything else, well you already know how we vote,” she commented after casting her vote at the Tlalpan mayor's office .
Who is Ifigenia Martínez?
Born on June 16, 1930 in Mexico City, Ifigenia Martha Martínez y Hernández is a prominent economist, politician, academic and diplomat from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM ); she as well as the first Mexican to obtain a master's degree in Economics at Harvard University, where she also completed her doctorate.
Within university life, the researcher at the UNAM Economic Research Institute was a professor of Public Finance at her alma mater and directed the Faculty of Economics ; However, in 1960 she was the winner of the National Economic Award as well as the “Woman of the Year” in 1966.
However, after her time in politics, she has been recognized for being one of the first women to occupy positions of great responsibility in the federal government, where she was one of the main co-founders of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and later led together with Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Party where she was the first senator from the then Federal District (now Mexico City) elected by an opposition party as well as a federal representative; However, she also stood out in the international arena where she was Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations.
While in 2013 she was appointed by the Head of Government of Mexico City as advisor for the Political Reform of the then Federal District and in 2016 she was appointed a member of the group of notables who collaborate with Dr. Mancera in drafting the proposal for the first and historic Political Constitution of the Capital City.
Currently Ifigenia Martha Martínez, 88 years old, has had an active partisan participation since its beginnings and to date, today as National Councilor Emeritus and National Coordinator of the Permanent Table of the Left and is affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement affiliate (Morena).
What did Sheinbaum say after casting his vote on June 2?
Claudia Sheinbaum voted this Sunday morning at the Tlalpan mayor's office where, upon leaving the polls, she revealed to the media that she would have given her vote for the presidency to Ifigenia Martínez.
Likewise, he highlighted that in these elections there is a very participatory panorama on the part of the citizens and assured that he hopes that there will be a good development of the elections this Sunday, June 2.
“It is going to be a very participatory day, we are going to demonstrate democracy in our country and everything is going to turn out very well,” declared the Morena candidate to N+.
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?
Candidate with a scientific and environmental profile, Claudia Sheinbaum was born in Mexico City on June 24, 1962, making her currently 62 years old .
'Scientific blood' runs through her veins as she is the daughter of the marriage between the chemist Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz and the biologist Annie Pardo Cemo.
The professional career of Claudia Sheinbaum's father was highlighted by the production and sale of chromium sulfate, while Annie Pardo Cemo has a career of more than 50 years as an academic at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In fact, the presidential candidate's mother won the National Science Prize in 2022 .
Sheinbaum has an academic career with the 'UNAM brand' since he attended high school at the College of Sciences and Humanities (CCH) Sur, where he began to show his interest in social and political issues. and then she continued her studies in Physics at the Faculty of Sciences.
In 2018, Sheinbaum made history by being the first woman elected to be the head of Government of Mexico City.
