Alicia Barrientos Pantoja (born 24 September 1972) is a Mexican politician. She is a member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and previously belonged to the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). [1]
Barrientos was born in Veracruz, Veracruz, in 1972. [1]
In the 2015 mid-terms, as a member of Morena, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent the Federal District's 12th district during the 63rd session of Congress. [1]
She stood again for the capital's 12th district in the 2024 general election but was narrowly defeated by Mónica Elizabeth Sandoval Hernández of the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition in a race that won the PRD its sole national single-member-district seat. [2] [3]
In November 2024 she was elected as the general secretary of Morena in Mexico City. [4]
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