page_title: Gabriela Cuevas Barron
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Gabriela Cuevas Barron / Political career
caption_attribution_description: English: Gabriela Cuevas Barrón, President Interparliamentary Union during the Word Investment Forum 2018. 22 october 2018. UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré
context_page_description: Gabriela Cuevas Barron is a Mexican politician. She is the current President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and a current senator for Mexico.
context_section_description: Cuevas has been an active and politically involved person and PAN member since 1994. She has occupied different positions inside her political party including head of the PAN in Mexico city's Miguel Hidalgo area.
  From 2000 to 2003 she served as federal deputy during the LVIII Legislature; then from 2003 to 2006 she served in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District representing the PAN.
  In April 2005, she and another PAN deputy, Jorge Lara, paid 2,000 MXN in order to prevent Andrés Manuel López Obrador from being jailed as he would "become a martyr" had he gone to jail during his "desafuero".
  In 2006 she was elected to serve as Jefe Delegacional of Miguel Hidalgo.
  In 2009 she was elected as federal deputy at the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
  In 2012 she was elected as senator at the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
  On 18 October 2017, Cuevas Barron was elected as the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the first female from the Americas, after formally contending with Uruguayan politician, Ivonne Passada.
  In January 2018, Cuevas Barron left the National Action Party to join the left-wing National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) citing that the objectives of inclusion, pluralism and development were not met. She will pose as an independent for the rest of her term as a senator, until the inauguration of the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress, where she will represent MORENA. The PAN claimed she left the party since she was not guaranteed a federal deputy spot through the proportional representation process.
caption: Gabriela Cuevas Barrón, President Interparliamentary Union during the Word Investment Forum 2018.
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