Libia García Muñoz Ledo

Libia Dennise García Muñoz Ledo (León, Guanajuato; June 15, 1983) is a Mexican lawyer, writer and politician. On 10 April 2023, she was selected as Secretary of Social and Human Development for the State of Guanajuato. She is the governor-elect of Guanajuato after winning the 2024 elections, becoming the first woman to govern the state once assuming the position.

She was Secretary of Government of the State of Guanajuato during the years 2021 - 2023. Likewise, she was a Local Deputy of Guanajuato on two occasions, from 2015 to 2018 and from 2018 to 2021. She is a member of the National Action Party.

Biography
She has a law degree from Universidad De La Salle Bajío. She has a master's degree in Constitutional and administrative law. In private practice, she has worked as a litigation attorney in civil and commercial matters.

She was part of the National Training Program for Democratic Leaders and Political Management, by the Organization of American States (OAS) in conjunction with the University of Guanajuato; the Seminar "Effective Legislation and Strategic Political Communication", by The Washington Center; and the Seminar in Public Management, by the Universidad Camilo José Cela de Madrid, Spain.

Her work experience includes being an advisor to the Parliamentary Group of the National Action Party in the LXII Legislature of the Congress of Guanajuato from 2012 - 2015, as well as Legal Advisor in the Directorate of Governmental Liaison of the Undersecretary of Liaison and Political Coordination of the State Government.

Political career
She began her activism in the National Action Party in 2004. During her youth, she was part of Acción Juvenil.

Within the State Directive Committee and the Municipal Directive Committee of León, Guanajuato, she has held the positions of state advisor, secretary of Internal Strengthening of the State Directive Committee of the National Action Party in León, PAN representative before the electoral bodies and trainer endorsed by the National System of Trainers of the National Action Party (SCAN).

She was a local deputy in the Congress of Guanajuato for the 5th Electoral District on two consecutive occasions, during the LXIII and LXIV Legislatures, being the first woman re-elected in Guanajuato. As a local deputy of Guanajuato, she promoted the proposal for the creation of the State Program for the Protection of Breastfeeding and the approval of the Olimpia Law.

In 2021, she was appointed by Governor Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo as head of the Secretary of Government, being the first woman in the history of the State of Guanajuato to hold that position.

Since 10 April 2023, she has served as Secretary of Social and Human Development of the State of Guanajuato.

On 16 August 2023, the national leadership of the PAN installed a political roundtable to define the (female) candidate for Governor of Guanajuato for the 2024 elections. Libia Dennise was officially recognized by the PAN as one of the two candidates for the Governorship of the State. She fought the gubernatorial election held on 2 June 2024.