Mexico City, November 12.- Former diver María José Alcalá fulfilled expectations by becoming the first female president of the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM) in its 98-year history , winning the elections, which for the first time in the organization were held by secret ballot , and emerging victorious over former taekwondo athlete Norma Olivia González .
Alcalá, a federal deputy in the LXV Legislature , affiliated with the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico , headed the "Voy por México" slate that in the historic scrutiny won by 87 to 46 votes - not as before, always by acclamation or majority -, over the "Transparency and Openness" group, led by González, who had stepped down from his position as head of the National Sports System to run in the election for the presidency of the COM, which will cover the period from 2021 to 2024 .
The outgoing president, Carlos Padilla , after leading Mexican Olympics for nine years, highlighted the "historic" moment of having a woman at the head of the COM, in line with the gender equity political tendencies of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).
Endorsed by Olegario Vázquez Raña
The deputy's victory was endorsed by Olegario Vázquez Raña , honorary member of the IOC and honorary president for life of the COM, as well as the Spaniard Pere Miró , deputy director general of the IOC and of Relations with the Olympic Movement, who was the unusual commissioner to attest and record the progress of the Mexican assembly
