The path of MORENA’s candidate for Mexico City Mayor: ¿Who is Clara Brugada?
MORENA’s candidate for head of government of Mexico City is Clara Marina Brugada Molina, 60 years old.
This MORENA leader aspires to maintain control of this organization in the Mexican capital with a gender focus and different proposals.
MORENA’s candidate for head of government of Mexico City, Brugada Molina, who registered as candidate of the coalition “Together we make history”, will make key with the presidential aspirant, Claudia Sheinbaum.
The coalition “Together we make history” is formed by the parties Morena, Partido del Trabajo and Partido Verde Ecologista de México.
The leftist leader Clara Marina Brugada Molina stamped her registration before the Electoral Institute of Mexico City on February 15.
The campaign kick-off will take place in the Zócalo this Friday, March 1st and, by the way, will also mark the beginning of her campaign for the office of Chief of Government.
MORENA’s candidate for Mexico City Mayor proposes the creation of “Feminist Utopia City”, a plan to guarantee women’s rights that she presented last December at the event “Utopia of economic development: the city we dream of“.
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The path of MORENA’s candidate for Mexico City Mayor: Clara Brugada
Clara Brugada’s path to be Morena’s candidate for Mexico City was determined by her experience and the gender ratio of candidates.
She was not the best positioned candidate in her party’s polls to define the candidacy, but Morena chose her to compete for the position of head of government after applying the gender parity rule approved by the National Electoral Institute (INE).
Brugada Molina, born in the Mexican capital, is running for election as the most recent mayor of Iztapalapa, the most populous municipality in all of Mexico City with more than 9.2 million inhabitants.
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¿Who is Clara Brugada?
MORENA’s candidate for Mexico City Mayor, Clara Brugada, studied Economics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Iztapalapa unit, between 1980 and 1985, according to her last résumé presented in the National Transparency Platform.
The following 10 years, that is, from 1985 to 1995, she worked as an advisor in social programs and citizen initiatives of the civil association DECA Equipo Pueblo.
After finishing her work in the civil association, Clara Brugada participated for the first time in an election process for a position: in 1995, she was elected as a citizen councilor to represent San Miguel Teotongo in the first Citizen Council of Iztapalapa (1995-1997). Here she also served as president of the Land Use Commission.
From 1997 to 2000, the politician from Iztapalapa obtained the position of federal deputy of the LVII Legislature for the 22nd district (Sierra de Santa Catarina, in Mexico City) after being nominated by the Party of the Democratic Revolution, PRD, the party for which Andrés Manuel López Obrador became head of government between 2000 and 2005.
In the following three-year term, from 2000 to 2003, she was again a deputy, but this time locally for the 29th district (in Iztapalapa) in the II Legislature of the then Federal District (now Mexico City).
Again for the PRD, Brugada became a new federal deputy, this time for the 25th district (Iztapalapa), for the period 2003-2006.
Clara Brugada’s positions
From 2006 to 2009, Clara Brugada held two positions: alternate senator for the ticket headed by Senator Pablo Gómez and social prosecutor of the Federal District in Marcelo Ebrard’s government.
In 2009, she left her post as social attorney to run for the office of chief of the Iztapalapa delegation.
After problems within the PRD and a process that had to be defined by a vote in the local Congress, Brugada was appointed head of Iztapalapa, a position she held until 2012.
The current candidate of MORENA for head of the Government of Mexico City ended her delegacional government in 2012 and joined Morena, the party founded by López Obrador and which led him to the presidency in 2018.
And it was precisely in 2018 when Clara Brugada returned to Iztapalapa.
That year, when the delegations became mayoralties, the politician won the election for Morena and became the first mayor of Iztapalapa.
The position of mayor lasts for three years and is eligible for immediate reelection for an equal term, which is why Brugada ran for mayor of Iztapalapa in 2021 and won for another three-year term.
She did not complete her last three years as mayor because she requested a leave of absence to run as MORENA’s candidate for Mexico City’s mayor.
