Wasn’t he 94 years old? This was the real age of Ifigenia Martínez, according to documents

<img alt="Outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador hands the sash of the presidency to Ifigenia Martínez, president of the Association of Deputies, at the inauguration ceremony of Claudia Sheinbaum, left, in Congress in Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo /Eduardo Verdugo)” class=”global-image” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high” height=”1080″ loading=”eager” src=”https://www.infobae.com/resizer/v2/MM45LPHBRVDGFO3WQ433SQRAXE.jpg?auth=10622a96894ffa9d9a3536dcaafdf467e1c07a719762e429e8e98e23391b07aa&smart=true&width=350&height=197&quality=85″ width=”1920″/>Outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador hands the sash of the presidency to Ifigenia Martínez, president of the Association of Deputies, at the inauguration ceremony of Claudia Sheinbaum, left, in Congress in Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo /Eduardo Verdugo)

On the night of October 5, Ifigenia Martinezpresident of the Board of Directors of the Association of Deputies, who died in Mexico City. The sudden news of his death was announced a few days after he presided over the inauguration ceremony of the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum.

Iphigenia went to the protest Sheinbaum before the Union Congress on October 1. A moment that attracted attention because he used oxygen during the event. However, he exchanged words with Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the president. That participation in the investiture ceremony was the representative’s last public act.

Martínez held the position of president of the Association of Deputies, she was a senator from Morena during the six-year term of former president López Obrador. Throughout her life, Ifigenia Martínez stood out in Mexican politics for her commitment to the cause of the left in Mexico, being the founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).

Ifigenia Martínez reappeared in the Chamber of Deputies to inaugurate President Claudia Sheinbaum. (Photo: Cuartoscuro)

According to his profile published in the Legislative Information System (SIL), he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Years later she became a professor in the same institution and took an active part in the student movement in 1968. She was also the first Mexican to obtain a master’s degree in Economics from the Institute. Harvard University.

After the death of Ifigenia Martínez was confirmed, details emerged that showed a different date of birth than the one reported. Well, according to the Parliamentary Journal of the Association of Deputies on August 29, 2020, the historic leader was born on June 16, 1925, therefore Ifigenia Martinez he died at 99 years oldas it would reach its next centenary in 2025.

Days before the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum, the deputy spoke to the press about the state of the country and its political aspirations. “What happiness that women are finally at the forefront together with men to move our great country forward. I can’t complain, we are all moving forward together,” said Martínez.

Ifigenia Martínez was born in 1925, not 1930 as thought. (Seat Parliamentary Gazette, Annex I)

He later reiterated that message in the speech he prepared to read before Congress at the inauguration ceremony of President Claudia Sheinbaum.

“Today, those convictions bear fruit. Not only do we have a President, but we imagine a gift in which women will participate under equal conditions in building possible and desirable futures for our country. “Being a part of this historic transmission of the Executive Branch and presenting the presidential sash to the first female president is one of the greatest honors of my life.”