Biography of mireya moscoso

34th President of Panama (–)

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Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez (born 1 July ) is a Panamanian politician who served as the President of Panama from to She is the country's first and to date only female president.^[1]

Born into a rural family, Moscoso became active in the presidential campaign of three-time president Arnulfo Arias, following and marrying him when he went into exile after a military coup.

After his death in , she assumed control of his coffee business and later his political party, the Arnulfista Party (PA). During the general elections for the presidency, she narrowly lost to the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) candidate Ernesto Pérez Balladares by 4% of the vote.

In the general election, she defeated the PRD candidate Martín Torrijos by 7% to become Panama's first female president.

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