Patricia Mercado
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Dora Patricia Mercado Castro (b. 1957 in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora) is a Mexican feminist politician. She is a founder and former president of Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative Party (in Spanish: Alternativa Socialdemócrata y Campesina). She was recently elected their candidate for the 2006 election.
Mercado Castro received a bachelor's degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1992 she received a scholarship from the MacArthur Foundation and three years later she represented Mexico in the World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.
Although in 1991 she was a candidate of the Labor Party to the Chamber of Deputies, she is better known for competing in the primary election for the Social Democracy (in Spanish: Democracia Social) nomination in the 2000 presidential elections against party leader Gilberto Rincón Gallardo and heading México Posible, a defunct political party that failed to secure its registry in the 2003 federal election. While in campaign, she actively promoted abortion rights and unsuccessfully took several Catholic bishops to court for distributing political pamphlets against her party.
She was the presidential candidate for the PASC and ran for president in the 2006 election, obtaining 2% of the popular vote.
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