Josefina Eugenia Vázquez Mota (pronunciationⓘ [xo̞.se̞'fi.na'βas.ke̞s'mo̞.ta]) (born 20 January 1961, in Mexico City) is a businessperson and politician who was the presidential candidate of the National Action Party (PAN) for the 2012 elections.

She began her political career with the PAN by becoming involved in Mexico's federal Chamber of Deputies and then in the administrations of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón.

Her parents, Arnulfo Vázquez and Josefina Mota, are from the Sierra Norte de Puebla region of Mexico, and she has seven brothers and sisters.

When they were children they use to sell chocolate shakes on the street with a blender Josefina received for Day of the Magi.

[3] Vázquez Mota spent the first five years of her childhood in a working-class neighborhood called Colonia 20 de Noviembre in Mexico City, began her education in public school, and started at La Patria es Primero School, in the Azcapotzalco borough.

[1] Her father originally wanted her to attend an all-girls high school and even paid paying a full year’s tuition in advance.

[5] Vázquez Mota met her husband, Sergio Ocampo Muñoz, a computer specialist, in high school.

[6] Vázquez Mota maintains a very strict diet and exercise regimen, as evidenced by an unusually thin physique.

[3] Vázquez Mota began her political career with the National Action Party (PAN) with the Asociación Coordinadora Ciudadana and a member of the Secretaría de la Mujer.

Her time there was marked by confrontations with the powerful head of the national teachers' union, Elba Esther Gordillo.

[7] As a candidate, Vázquez Mota advocated for life sentences for politicians found guilty of corruption related to organized crime.

She supported more scholarships for students, and labor-law reforms, which she said would incorporate 400,000 people each year into the formal economy.

Vázquez Mota ran for governor of the State of Mexico in the 2017 election but finished in fourth place in a closely fought race between Delfina Gómez of Morena and the winner, Alfredo del Mazo of a PRI-led coalition.