Marcela Lombardo Otero is a Mexican

Mexican people

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 politician, daughter of the leftist Vicente Lombardo Toledano

Vicente Lombardo Toledano

Vicente Lombardo Toledano was one of the foremost Mexican labor leaders of the 20th century. He founded the Confederation of Mexican Workers , the national labor federation most closely associated with the ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party , for most of the last sixty-five years...

, founder of the Popular Socialist Party

Popular Socialist Party (Mexico)

The Popular Socialist Party is a communist party in Mexico. It was founded in 1948 as the Popular Party by Vicente Lombardo Toledano....

. She was a deputy during the L and LIV Legislatures, from 1976 to 1979 and 1988 to 1991. In the 1988 election

Mexican general election, 1988

General elections were held in Mexico on July 6, 1988. The presidential elections were won by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who received 50.7% of the vote, the lowest for a winning candidate since direct elections were introduced for the presidency in 1917...

, she was the only female candidate from any of the parties that formed the FDN (National Democratic Front

National Democratic Front (Mexico)

The National Democratic Front was a coalition of left-wing Mexican political parties created in 1988 presidential elections, and that is the immediate antecedent of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. It was result of an agglutination of small political left and center-left forces with a...

, the left wing coalition) to win her seat in congress by majority.

Career

She was the presidential candidate of PPS (Popular Socialist Party) in the 1994 election

Mexican general election, 1994

General elections were held in Mexico on 21 August 1994. The presidential elections resulted in a victory for Ernesto Zedillo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, whilst the PRI won 300 of the 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 95 of the 128 seats in the Senate...

, in which she obtained 0.47% of the votes. This result (second to last among nine presidential candidates) implied the loss of the official registry to her party, which was recovered in 1997, and then lost again definitely.

She is the Director of Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Políticos y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano.