Meet The Female Bodybuilder Running For Parliament In Mexico

We all know what the Incredible Hulk looks like. Massive and muscular green dude, ragged yet remarkably stretchy pants, perhaps the slightest glint of anger in his eye... Yeah, we're familiar.

Some of us might even be familiar with his female equivalent, the lesser-spotted Marvel character She-Hulk. Again: musclebound. Green. They're the key things to bear in mind here.

So when a bodybuilder dubbed 'Female Hulk' turns up, who also happens to be a Green Party candidate, it almost seems like too much of a coincidence.

But that's exactly the case in Mexico, where Green Party candidate Andrea Yunus Yunus is making something of a name for herself.

Yunus Yunus is running for the Mexican congress as a candidate for the Ecologist Green Party in the city of Boca del Rio in the south-east of the country, in the state of Veracruz.

"This is who I am and I present myself as such. Without fooling anyone, if I get in (election to congress) I will keep being the same person," she said.

"I will never hide who I am. There will be some people who do not like it, but there are a lot of people who think and act like me."

A frequent gym goer, Yunus Yunus regularly hits the wearing and has been known to campaign in her gym, sporting leggings and vests on the streets of Boca del Rio as she canvasses for votes.

She says that the secret to her physique - which has earned the nickname of 'Female Hulk' - is little more than a healthy diet and exercise.

That seems pretty far removed from the standard election diet of British politicians, which seems to be made up predominantly of cups of tea in local community centres and supermarket sandwiches, scoffed between events on the battle bus.

She has become something of a social media celebrity in Mexico, with many people drawn to her unusual-for-a-politician appearance.

WATCH: One-armed bodybuilder lifts weights

The Ecologist Green Party have done very well in Mexico in recent years, grabbing about 10 percent of the vote in the last election and managing to get themselves 47 seats in the Congress.

They were the big winners at the 2015 election and will hope to repeat the trick in 2018.

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Topics: Interesting, Mexico

Mike Wood

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