Maribel Aguilera Cháirez
Mexican politician
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Maribel Aguilera Cháirez (born 20 December 1977) is a Mexican politician. Originally affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), she joined the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in 2018.
Maribel Aguilera Cháirez | |
|---|---|
| Education | Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Political party | PRI, MORENA |
In the 2018 general election, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the 64th session of Congress, representing Durango's 3rd district for Morena,[1] and she was re-elected to the same seat in 2021.[2]
Life
Aguilera Cháirez obtained a law degree from the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango (UJED). In 2004, she was tapped to head the Durango Women's Institute (IMD), a post she left in 2007 to run for office.[3] She was a local deputy in the Congress of Durango from 2007 to 2010, entering the state legislature at the age of 29,[4] and was an unused alternate federal deputy in the 61st Congress (2009–2012).[1]
In February 2018, Aguilera left the PRI to join Morena along with several other former legislators from Durango.[5] She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Durango's 3rd district in the 2018 general election and served on three commissions: Rural Development and Conservation; Migratory Matters; and Economy, Commerce and Competitiveness.[1] She was re-elected to the same seat in the 2021 mid-terms but resigned in January 2022 to take charge of the federal government's social programmes in Durango;[6] she was replaced for the remainder of her term by her alternate, Martha Alicia Arreola Martínez.[7]
Aguilera is also the president of the Asociación de Mujeres de México y el Mundo, A.C. (Association of Women of Mexico and the World).[1][8]
