Carolina Monroy del Mazo

Carolina Monroy del Mazo
Secretary General of the PRI
Assumed office
20 August 2015
Preceded byIvonne Ortega Pacheco
Deputy to the Congress of the Union (27th Federal Electoral District of the State of Mexico)
Assumed office
1 December 2015
Preceded byArturo Montiel
Municipal president of Metepec
In office
2012 – 6 January 2015
Preceded byAna Lilia Herrera Anzaldo
Succeeded byRafael Gómez Escalera
Personal details
Born (1962-08-21) 21 August 1962 (age 62)
Atlacomulco, State of Mexico, Mexico
Political partyInstitutional Revolutionary
SpouseErnesto Nemer Álvarez
Alma materUniversidad del Valle de Toluca
OccupationLawyer

Carolina Monroy del Mazo (born 21 August 1962) is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, currently serving as the secretary-general of the PRI and as a federal deputy to the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing the 27th Federal Electoral District of the State of Mexico.

Early life and education

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Monroy obtained her law degree in 1983 from the Universidad del Valle de Toluca and briefly taught there between 1984 and 1985.[1]

Career

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Monroy worked for a wide variety of institutions in the state government, including the Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (1982–84), General Secretariat of Government (1984–86), General Directorate of Prevention and Social Readaptation (1988–93), DIF (1993-2000), State Population Council (2000–01), State of Mexico Cultural Institute (2001–05), Social Security Institute of the State of Mexico (2005) and Sistema de Radio y Televisión Mexiquense (2006–09). In 2009, she was named to the state cabinet as the Secretary of Economic Development, a post she held until 2011.[1]

In 2013, voters elected Monroy for the first time, as the municipal president of Metepec. She left the post in 2015 in order to run for the Chamber of Deputies from the 27th district, centered on the city. She serves only on the Gender Equality Commission, having left her post on the Tourism Commission in December 2015.[1]

The late 2000s also saw her PRI party career develop. She served as a state-level political councilor between 2006 and 2009 and as a national councilor between 2014 and 2015.[1] In 2015, she was elected as the PRI's secretary-general and will serve until 2018; after the resignation of Manlio Fabio Beltrones in June 2016, Monroy was tapped to be the party's interim president,[2] a capacity in which she served until Enrique Ochoa Reza became the party's president.

Personal

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Monroy is a niece of Alfredo del Mazo González, former Governor of the State of Mexico and Secretary of Energy, and cousin of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who also governed the state;[3] she is married to Ernesto Nemer Álvarez, Secretary General of Government of the State of Mexico and subsecretary of the Secretariat of Social Development.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d SIL: Legislative Profile of Carolina Monroy del Mazo
  2. ^ Cortés, Nayeli (27 June 2016). "Carolina Monroy regresará a la secretaría general apenas el PRI elija presidente". El Financiero. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  3. ^ "No seré secretaria general del PRI por ser prima de Peña: Carolina Monroy". Milenio Diario. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  4. ^ "La prima de Peña Nieto, a la secretaría general del PRI". Aristegui Noticias. 7 August 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.