Dulce María Sauri Riancho (b. 1951 in Mérida

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, Yucatán

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) is a Mexican

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 politician who was the first woman to serve as governor of Yucatán

Governor of Yucatán

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, from 1991 through 1994.

Dulce María Sauri studied sociology

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 at the Universidad Iberoamericana

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. She is an active member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party

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 (PRI) since 1981. She has served as deputy in the Congress of Yucatán and as federal deputy in the lower house

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 of the Mexican Congress

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 (Yucatán's Fourth District

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, 1982–85).

Sauri served in the upper house

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of the federal Congress from 2000 to 2006.