Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz
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Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz (b. January 25, 1958 in Mexico City as Citlali Ibáñez Camacho) is a Mexican entrepreneur and current Senator who in 2005 was nominated as candidate by the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) as its candidate for governor of the State of México in the 2005 state election. She lost to Enrique Peña Nieto of the PRI.
Polevnsky studied psychology at the Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City. She has served in various positions inside the Cámara Nacional de la Industria de la Transformación ("Canacintra"), including a period in 2002 as its first woman president.
In the 2006 general election she supported the presidential campaign of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and was elected to the Senate, representing the state of México for the PRD.