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Josefina Vázquez Mota

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Josefina Eugenia Vázquez Mota ( [xo̞.se̞'fi.na'βas.ke̞s'mo̞.ta]) (born 20 January 1961, in Mexico City) is a businessperson and politician who was the presidential candidate of the National Action Party (PAN) for the 2012 elections. Vázquez Mota was trained as an economist and began her working career in family businesses and with various business organizations and conferences, also working as a journalist and writing books. She began her political career with the PAN by becoming involved in Mexico's federal Chamber of Deputies and then in the administrations of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón. She was the PAN's first female candidate for president. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 16 in 2024). Josefina Vázquez Mota is the 18,479th most popular politician (down from 18,002nd in 2024), the 528th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 516th in 2019) and the 107th most popular Mexican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Josefina Vázquez Mota ranks 18,479 out of 19,576Before her are Brock Adams, Jozef Stümpel, Clement Comer Clay, Ahmed Patel, Zbigniew Ziobro, and Johanna Mikl-Leitner. After her are Mariusz Błaszczak, Mirela Kumbaro, Bill Clements, Taro Yamamoto, Sybrand van Haersma Buma, and Carl Hayden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Josefina Vázquez Mota ranks 735Before her are Antonella Mularoni, Howard Gordon, Dirk De Wolf, Sonja Lumme, Charles O. Hobaugh, and Daniel M. Tani. After her are Grace Jackson, Jun Suzuki, Al Jean, Dan Frost, Jack Guy Lafontant, and Anke Behmer.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Josefina Vázquez Mota ranks 528 out of 729Before her are Olaf Heredia (1957), Nailea Norvind (1970), Adriana Fonseca (1977), Perro Aguayo Jr. (1979), Carlos de los Cobos (1958), and Ricardo Osorio (1980). After her are Javier Valdez Cárdenas (1967), Andrade Cien Almas (1989), Mariana Seoane (1976), Armando Manzo (1958), Blanca Soto (1979), and José Pilar Reyes (1955).

Among POLITICIANS In Mexico

Among politicians born in Mexico, Josefina Vázquez Mota ranks 107Before her are Juan Bautista de Anza (1736), Patricia Espinosa (1958), Xóchitl Gálvez (1963), Raúl Héctor Castro (1916), Monica Frassoni (1963), and Adrián Fernández (1963). After her are Margarita Zavala (1967), Marisela Morales (1970), Martha Érika Alonso (1973), Cristián Bejarano (1981), Juan René Serrano (1984), and Iridia Salazar (1982).