Martha Hilda González Calderón Explained

Martha Hilda González Calderón
Office:Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies
President:Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín
Term Start:5 September 2017
Term End:6 February 2018
Predecessor:Javier Bolaños Aguilar
Successor:Martha Tamayo
Office2:Member of the Chamber of Deputies
for State of Mexico′s 34th district
Term Start2:1 September 2015
Term End2:31 August 2018
Predecessor2:Norma González Vera
Successor2:Miroslava Carrillo Martínez
Office3:President of the Municipality of Toluca
Term Start3:1 January 2013
Term End3:12 February 2015
Predecessor3:Guillermo Legorreta Martínez
Successor3:Braulio Antonio Álvarez Jasso
Birth Date:1965 8, df=yes
Birth Place:State of Mexico, Mexico
Education:School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Paris Dauphine University
Alma Mater:Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
Occupation:Politician
Party:Institutional Revolutionary
Profession:Lawyer

Martha Hilda González Calderón (born 13 August 1965) is a Mexican lawyer and politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She currently serves as a federal deputy of the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the XXXIV Federal Electoral District of the State of Mexico.[1]

Early life and education

González Calderón received her law degree from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México in 1987 and immediately became the Director of Social Promotion in Toluca; after two years, she transitioned into a citizen attention position in Toluca's second district.[1] In 1990, she became an alternate local deputy to the LI Legislature of the Congress of the State of Mexico, while she served as a women's leader and municipal councilor in the local PRI[1] and pursued her master's degree in Political Sociology from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.[1] Two years after graduating with her master's in 1993, she received her doctorate degree in the same discipline from the Paris Dauphine University.[1] She went on to teach French and political analysis.[1]

Career

Return to Mexico

In the late 1990s, González Calderón's Mexican political career resumed. She became a deputy attorney for the Toluca Valley in 1999 and left that position to spend a year as the environmental secretary of the State of Mexico, between 2001 and 2002.[1] A year later, voters sent her to the LV Legislature of the Congress of the State of Mexico, where she presided over the Political Coordination Board and the Commission for the Prosecution and Administration of Justice.[1] During this time, from 2004 to 2007, she served on the board of the State of Mexico Institute of Public Administration, A.C.[1]

After her three-year term as a state deputy, González went to the federal Chamber of Deputies for the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress, being vice president of its board of directors and serving on commissions including Metropolitan Development, National Defense, Environment and Natural Resources, Special on Femicides, and Special on Non-Discrimination.[1]

With her first term in San Lázaro over, González Calderón briefly returned to the state government with a brief stint as the secretary of tourism, a position she left after just one year in order to become the PRI's secretary general in the State of Mexico.[1] In 2012, she was tapped as president of the PRI in Toluca.

Municipal presidency

In 2012, voters elected González Calderón from a coalition including the PRI, PVEM and Nueva Alianza to become the new municipal president of Toluca beginning on 1 January 2013; she received just over half the vote.[2] During her tenure, Toluca was awarded by the Mexican Competitiveness Institute for leading the nation in budget transparency in 2014.[3] Social media users criticized her in 2013 for allegedly ordering a culling of stray dogs in the city.[4]

Back to San Lázaro

In January 2015, González Calderón asked for approval to permanently step aside as mayor of Toluca in order to run for federal deputy.[5] She won the seat for the 34th district, one of several including Toluca, and sits on the Competitiveness, Public Education and Educational Services, and Government Commissions.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Perfil del legislador. Legislative Information System. 22 July 2016. Spanish.
  2. News: Punto de Expresión. Martha Hilada González fungirá como Presidenta Municipal del 2013 al 2015 en Toluca. Arturo. Víquez. 9 July 2012. 22 July 2016. Spanish.
  3. News: Periodico El Día. 11 December 2014. 24 August 2016. Martha Hilda González recibió el premio nacional en Transparencia Presupuestal. Martha Hilda González received national award in budget transparency. Spanish.
  4. News: Acusan de "asesina de perros" a alcaldesa de Toluca . Spanish . SDP Noticias . 3 July 2013 . 1 September 2016 . Mayor of Toluca accused of "killing dogs" . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20160901122844/http://www.sdpnoticias.com/local/edomex/2013/07/03/acusan-de-asesina-de-perros-a-alcaldesa-de-toluca . 1 September 2016 .
  5. News: Hoy Estado. Licencia definitiva para alcaldesa de Toluca; suplente desdeña el cargo. 22 January 2015. Agencia MVT. 22 July 2016. Spanish.