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Balbina Del Carmen Herrera Araúz (Panama City, November 24 of 1954), Engineer and political Panamanian with more than 25 years of public practice at different positions People's Choice nomination Executive. Current Presidential Candidate for general elections on May 3 of 2009 and President of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (2008-2013). Mother of 3 children and grandmother of 5 grandchildren.

Educational Background
A graduate of the National Institute in 1974, did her higher studies in the University of Panama, which ended with honors as Agricultural Engineer in 1980.

In this center of higher education, was received as a professor of secondary education and earned several degrees.

From very early showed leadership and enrolled when the fourth year, driven by her sister Juana Herrera, was entered in the Student Federation of Panama (FEP) at which stage began to interact with the student leadership at the University of Panama. .

Civic Movement - Political
Throughout her life has belonged to several groups, among them the Student Federation of Panama (EFF), Columns Youth January 9, Federation of Democratic Women, Women Association of Panama East, Member of Executive Continental Front Against Aggression, Civic Committee of Los Andes, College of Agriculture of Panama and President of the Association of Mayors of Panama.

Despite hectic in several movements, her political life formally began in 1979 when she was placed on the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD). Twenty years later became the President of this, and become the largest political organization in Panama.

Policy management
From 1984 to 1989 she served as mayor of the District of San Miguelito. In 1989 she was elected as legislator of the Republic, Organ of the State in which he was for three consecutive periods and in which she wrote a new page in their history by becoming the first woman to chair the Panamanian parliament.

During her administration in the Legislative Assembly was elected Vice President of the Latin American Parliament, a member of the Board of the Social Emergency Fund (FES), actively participated in various committees, among which included the Trade, Foreign Affairs, Women Affairs, Agriculture, Health, Public Works, among others.

To represent the generation of politicians that has been marked by its dedication to service to the community and the country, the President of the Republic, Martín Torrijos, appointed as the Minister of State, in front of the housing portfolio.

Her experience in public life, let her play the position with great diligence, which has been recognized by leaders of both government and opposition, to the point that since the beginning of the administration of President Martín Torrijos, the population places it as the best minister of the Cabinet, leading obtaining up to 90% of acceptance.

Current
In March 2008 gets back the presidency of her party in the Eighth National Congress of the PRD, to beat the Ex-President Ernesto Pérez Balladares. From there, due to the pressures inside the group policy, coupled with the increasingly insistent requests for society in general, decides to run to get the presidential nomination from his party in the [[primary elections] ]. This led to the deal, in a strong campaign, the City Mayor Juan Carlos Navarro and former Minister of Agricultural Development and former Legislator Laurentino Cortizo. Despite always being favorites by a wide margin in all opinion polls, Balbina Herrera obtained the victory on 7 September 2008 with 48% of the votes of the members of the PRD and only 5% difference Navarro, who excelled throughout the campaign with a heavy investment in advertising, nearly twice that Herrera, which had a simpler way proselytizing, which its main theme was "Balbina with 'From Heart'."

Thus, Balbina Herrera joined Guillermo Endara in Vanguardia Moral de la Patria, Ricardo Martineli in Democratic Change and Juan Carlos Varela] ] Of [[Panamanian Party as Candidate for the presidency for the Elections in May 2009, in which part as a favorite in opinion polls, since even before formalizing his candidacy, in marked the first place.

At the end of the month of November 2008 Balbina Herrera in the midst of an informal interview, while visiting some victims, confirmed that her recent opponent in the primary elections, Juan Carlos Navarro, would be her vice president. With that election, Herrera seeks to seal the emphatic manner of serious dichotomy that had the PRD from the Primary. Likewise the choice of Navarro was a political strategy that sought not only to send the message of unity, a characteristic of the PRD, but also to reassure some sectors economic and right, who sympathized more with Navarro, who have a certain level of concern about the linkages of Left made to Herrera and that she not only has refused repeated occasions, but it proved his acting and handling in the "Public Thing."

In this way Herrera, despite being the last presidential candidate to formalize his candidacy, is the first to define its companion formula for the elections of May 2009.

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