Ivonne Ortega Pacheco

Ivonne Ortega
Governor of Yucatán
In office August 1, 2007 – September 30, 2012
Preceded by	Patricio Patrón
Succeeded by	Rolando Zapata Bello
Senator for Yucatán
In office 2006–2006
Preceded by	José Alberto Castañeda
Succeeded by	Cleominio Zoreda Novelo
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 2003–2006
Preceded by	José Feliciano Moo y Can
Succeeded by	José Luis Blanco Pajón
Deputy of the Congress of Yucatán
In office 2001–2003
Mayor of Dzemul
In office 1998–2001
Preceded by	Ricardo Pacheco Ortega
Succeeded by	Eduardo Librado Chuc Baas
Personal details
Born	Ivonne Aracelly Ortega Pacheco November 27, 1972 Dzemul, Yucatán
Nationality	Mexican
Political party	Institutional Revolutionary Party
Spouse(s)	Carlos Cabrera Rivera (Divorced)
Religion	Catholic

Ivonne Aracelly Ortega Pacheco (born November 27, 1972) is a Mexican politician from Yucatán affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and former Governor of Yucatán. She is Yucatan's first elected female governor, although the second to serve, after Dulce María Sauri who served as interim governor from 1991 to 1994. She is the sixth woman to serve as governor of a Mexican state.

Political career

Ortega has occupied different positions inside the PRI of Yucatán. In 1998 she was elected municipal president (mayor) of Dzemul, Yucatán. In 2001 she served as local deputy in the Congress of Yucatán and in 2003 she was elected federal deputy representing Yucatán's Second District. In 2006 she was elected senator to serve from 2006 to 2012 but left that position in 2006 to run for Governor of Yucatán in the 2007 Yucatán gubernatorial election. Ortega won the election to serve as Governor from 2007 to 2012 (the term was originally set to end in 2013 but a state reform was made to have the state election coincide with the 2012 presidential election in Mexico). She was inaugurated as governor on August 1, 2007.

Candidate for Governor

In 2006 she expressed her intention to be candidate of her party for Governor of Yucatán in 2007 elections and asked permission to leave her duties as a senator. Her nomination was a surprise, because she had occupied the post of senator for only three months, and faced candidates with more political career than her.

On December 4, 2006, the PRI's National Executive Committee, was presented the results of the Consulta Mitofsky poll conducted between Ortega and 5 other candidates in the PRI party of Yucatan: Carlos Sobrino Sierra, Erick Rubio Barthell, Dulce María Sauri, Orlando Paredes Lara and Rubén Calderón Cecilio. Ortega was the most favored by the Yucatecans, and consequently was declared a candidate of unity with the agreement of the rest of the candidates.^[1] Again her victory was considered a surprise because the former interim governor Dulce María Sauri had been seen as the favorite. On January 13, 2007 she was sworn as the PRI candidate for the governorship of Yucatan.

On February 26 her candidacy was endorsed by the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico and the Alliance for Yucatan Party, which formed a three-party coalition with PRI for the 25 local deputations and 106 municipalities.^[2]

Electoral history

Yucatán Gubernatorial Election 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PRI with PVEM and PAY	Ivonne Ortega	421,035	49.92
	PAN with PANAL	Xavier Abreu	358,116	42.46
	PT and Convergence	Ana Rosa Payán	27,126	3.21
	PRD	Héctor Herrera	22,496	2.66
	PSD	Jorge Lizcano	1,347	0.15
Total votes			843,334[3]	100.0

References

1. Ya tiene candidata el PRI Diario de Yucatán, 5 de diciembre de 2006.
2. “A rescatar el gobierno” Diario de Yucatán, 27 de febrero de 2007.
3. Elección a gobernador, resultados de las actas de cómputo distritales, IPEPAC.