Martha Lucía Mícher

Martha Lucía Mícher Camarena, also known as Malú Mícher (born 11 February 1954), is a Mexican politician affiliated with National Regeneration Movement (Morena). She is currently a senator representing the state of Guanajuato in the 64th and 65th Congresses.

Early life and education

She was born on 11 February 1954 in Mexico City. She has a degree in Pedagogy from the Universidad Panamericana, and has participated in several organizations of the left and fought for the equality of women. This includes several organized by the Socialist International on behalf of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and member of the Mexican delegation to the World Conference of Women held in Beijing, China.

Political career Mícher ran for Governor of Guanajuato in 1995, coming third to Vicente Fox and PRI candidate Ignacio Vázquez Torres, but obtaining an important influence for her party, which was practically nonexistent before her candidacy. Mícher was a deputy in the Guanajuato state legislature, from 1997 to 2000, and she ran unsuccessfully for Municipal President of León in 2000.

From 2000 to 2002, she was the women's secretary of the National Executive Committee of the PRD.

From 2003 to 2006 she was a plurinominal deputy in the 59th Congress. Between 2012 and 2015 she returned to the Chamber of Deputies for the 62nd Congress, representing the Federal District's fourteenth district. She left the PRD for Morena in 2015 and won election to the Senate from Guanajuato in 2018.