Ana Lilia Rivera | |
Office: | President of the Senate of Republic |
Term Start: | 1 September 2023 |
Predecessor: | Alejandro Armenta Mier |
Office2: | Senator for Tlaxcala |
Term Start2: | 1 September 2018 |
Predecessor2: | Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros |
Birth Date: | 1973 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Calpulalpan, Tlaxcala, Mexico |
Education: | Autonomous University of Tlaxcala |
Occupation: | Senator |
Party: | MORENA |
Ana Lilia Rivera Rivera (born 14 February 1973) is a Mexican politician elected to serve as the President of the Senate 2023.[1] She is a senator from the state of Tlaxcala and is affiliated with MORENA.[2]
Rivera was born on 14 February 1973 in the Santiago Cuaura neighborhood of Calpulalpan, Tlaxcala. She studied law at the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala; in 1994 she was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention convened by Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN).[3]
She joined the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in 2000 and coordinated several political campaigns for this party. From 2008 to 2011, she represented the state's 13th district in the LIX Congress of Tlaxcala; in 2014 she joined the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).[4]
In the 2018 elections, Rivera was elected to the Senate to represent Tlaxcala for the Morena party during the 64th and 65th Congresses.[5] [6] She is seeking re-election as one of Tlaxcala's senators in the 2024 Senate election, occupying the second place on the National Regeneration Movement's two-name formula.[7]