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Margarita Zavala, First Lady of Mexico

Margarita Zavala, First Lady of Mexico

Margarita Zavala (born Margarita Esther Zavala Gómez del Campo, July 25, 1967) is the wife of Mexican President Felipe Calderón and therefore the First Lady of Mexico. She was a PAN deputy in 2006 in the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress.

In her earlier life, she was the fifth of seven siblings: Diego, Mercedes, Pablo, Juan Ignacio, Rafael and Mónica. Her parents were lawyers. Margarita Zavala studied law at Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City.

She married Felipe Calderón on January 1993. They have three children.

Margarita’s primary objective in the changing Mexican government is to help her newly elected husband run the educational programs throughout the country.

As the wife of Mexican President Felipe Calderón, Margarita Zavala will serve as First Lady of Mexico from 2006-2012. She’s the only first lady of Mexico to have served in Congress, and is very involved in her husband’s presidency. She currently serves as president of an advisory board for DIF, a government agency that helps to develop and strengthen families in Mexico, as well as a high-school teacher in the private school Asuncion.

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