María de los Ángeles Moreno Uriegas (15 January 1945 – 27 April 2019) was a Mexican politician who was the first woman to be elected president of a Mexican political party.

Personal life and education

Born in

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, Moreno Uriegas was the daughter of Manuel Moreno and Amalia Uriegas Sánchez. She held a bachelor's degree in

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from the

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(UNAM) and pursued graduate studies at the

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Political career

Moreno Uriegas became an active member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1960. She served in the cabinet of

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Carlos Salinas de Gortari as Secretary of Fisheries from December 1988 to May 1991. She was then elected to the

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, where she served as

in 1992. In December 1994, Moreno was elected President of her political party, becoming the first woman in Mexico to hold that position. From 1994 to 2000, she served in the

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, representing the

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; in 1997, she was the President of the Senate and in 1999, President of the Permanent Commission of the Congress. From 2000 to 2003, she served as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District. In 2006, she returned to the Senate through the

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(PR) mechanism. Moreno died in Mexico City on 27 April 2019, at the age of 74.

References

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