Ivonne Liliana Álvarez García (born 25 April 1978) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the Nati ...

(PRI). In 2012 she was elected to serve as a Senator of the

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representing

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. Profile at the Legislative Information System
/ref> She was also Municipal President of

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, and has been widely criticized for not fulfilling her term to seek a position in the senate; Álvarez publicly promised during her campaign not to do this. In the 2018 general elections she secured a seat in the lower house of the Mexican congress. Before becoming a politician, she worked as hostess of a television show called ''Música Grupera'' for

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. In January 2015 she was designated the PRI candidate for the 2015 Nuevo León gubernatorial election.

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1978 births Living people Politicians from Monterrey Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians Autonomous University of Nuevo León alumni Members of the Congress of Nuevo León Municipal presidents in Nuevo León 21st-century Mexican women politicians Senators of the LXII and LXIII Legislatures of Mexico Women members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) {{Mexico-senator-InstitutionalRevolutionary-stub