Ivonne Ortega Pacheco

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name = Ivonne Ortega
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birth_date = birth date and age|1972|11|27
birth_place = flagicon|Mexico
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office = Governor of Yucatán
term_start = August 1, 2007
term_end = present
office2 = Municipal president of Dzemul
term_start2 = 1998
term_end2 = 2001
predecessor = Patricio Patrón
successor = incumbent
party = PRI
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spouse = Carlos Cabrera Rivera
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website = [http://ivonneortega.com ivonneortega.com]

Ivonne Aracelly Ortega Pacheco (b. November 27, 1972) is a Mexican politician from Yucatán affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the current 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 fifth woman to serve as governor of a Mexican state. She is currently one of the only two women state governors in Mexico (the other being Amalia Garcia of Zacatecas).

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 her state. 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 hence she was elected to served 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.

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