Luisa María de Guadalupe Calderón Hinojosa (born October 23, 1956 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the National Action Party who until September 2006 served in the upper house of Congress.[1]
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Luisa María belongs to a family of prominent mexican politicians. She is the sister of President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and Juan Luis Calderón Hinojosa.[2][3]
She studied psychology at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, and has pursued graduate studies at the Universidad Iberoamericana.
Luisa María is a single mother.
Calderón joined the National Action Party in 1976. She served as a local deputy in the Congress of Michoacán from 1983[4] to 1986 and served in the federal Chamber of Deputies during the LIV Legislature. In 2000 she was elected via proportional representation to serve as a Senator during the LVIII Legislature and the LIX Legislature.
In 2011 Luisa María unsuccessfully ran for governor of the State of Michoacan. She was the candidate of the PAN-PANAL coalition.
Luisa María lost against Fausto Vallejo Y Figueroa by less that 3 percent of the votes.[5]