Martha Palafox Gutiérrez

Martha Palafox Gutiérrez (23 February 1949 – 17 March 2022) was a Mexican lawyer and politician. At different times, she was affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the Labor Party (PT) and the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).

Martha Palafox Gutiérrez was born in Huamantla, Tlaxcala, on 23 February 1949. She earned a law degree from the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala (UAT) and, in 1965, became a member of the PRI. Her second term in Congress was during the 59th Congress (2003–2006) as a plurinominal deputy for the PRI.

In the 2012 general election, she was elected to the Senate, where she served during the 62nd Congress (2012–2015), representing Tlaxcala for the PT.

She contended for the governorship of Tlaxcala for Morena in the but lost to Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez of the PRI.