Ximena Peña

Ximena del Rocío Peña Pacheco (born 11 February 1976) is an Ecuadorian politician.[1] She served as a member of the National Assembly from 2013 to 2020, and was the presidential candidate of the incumbent PAIS Alliance party in the 2021 election.[2]

Ximena Peña
Peña in 2013
National Assembly of Ecuador
In office
24 May 2013 – 5 October 2020
Personal details
Born
Ximena del Rocío Peña

(1976-02-11) 11 February 1976
Cuenca, Ecuador

Career

Ximena Peña was born in Cuenca, Ecuador, on 11 February 1976.[3] She moved to New York City at the age of 19. She earned an associate degree from LaGuardia Community College, then entered Baruch College. At Baruch, she completed a Bachelor and Master of Business Administration. Peña returned to Ecuador in 2008 and joined the PAIS Alliance political party.[1]

In the 2013 general elections, Peña was elected to the National Assembly for the United States and Canada overseas constituency. She was reelected in 2017.[4] In May 2019, she became the president of the Justice and State Structure Commission in the National Assembly. She also led the parliamentary group for Human Rights and Mobility.[5] In 2020, Peña was coordinator of her party's legislative bloc in the assembly during the third legislative period of the National Assembly, a position she resigned in July 2020.[6]

In a national party convention, Peña was chosen as the presidential candidate of the PAIS Alliance for the 2021 election. Her vice-presidential candidate was Patricio Barriga, who had served as a Secretary of Communications under the Correa government.[7][8] Peña was the only female presidential candidate in this election, although there were several female vice presidential candidates.[9]

References
  1. "¿Quién es Ximena Peña, la única mujer candidata a la presidencia?". GK (in Spanish). 8 October 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  2. "Ximena Peña y Patricio Barriga, el binomio de Alianza PAIS para competir en las elecciones presidenciales del 2021". Diario El Universo (in Spanish). 22 August 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  3. "Ximena Peña retornó a su patria buscando lugar en la revolución". El Universo (in Spanish). 5 December 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  4. "Alianza País pasó de seis a cuatro asambleístas por las circunscripciones del exterior". El Comercio. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  5. "Candidatos presidenciales 2021". www.elcomercio.com. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  6. "Asambleísta Ximena Peña renuncia a la coordinación del bloque de Alianza País". El Comercio. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  7. "Alianza País escoge a Ximena Peña y Patricio Barriga como su binomio presidencial". El Comercio. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  8. "Alianza PAIS inscribe a Ximena Peña como candidata a la presidencia". Primicias (in European Spanish). Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  9. "Ni correísta, ni morenista, se define la única mujer candidata a la Presidencia de Ecuador". www.efe.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 April 2021.
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