La presidenta municipal ("The Municipal President") is a 1975 Mexican comedy film written and directed by Fernando Cortés and starring MarÃÂa Elena Velasco ëLa India MarÃÂaû, Adalberto MartÃÂnez "Resortes", Fernando Soto "Mantequilla", JoaquÃÂn GarcÃÂa "Borolas", Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez, Leopoldo "Polo" OrtÃÂn, Rosita Bouchot and Rosa Furman. The film was shot at Tlayacapan, Morelos, Mexico.
In the small town of Chipitongo el Alto (in English: High Chipitongo), the political boss Don Mario N. Cruz is the only presidential (town mayor) candidate of that municipality. When the town's clumsy and blind pressman Don Casimiro Buenavista prints "MarÃÂa" instead of "Mario" on all the ballots, the presidential candidacy automatically reverts to MarÃÂa Nicolasa Cruz, an illiterate and indigenous potter. Once informed, MarÃÂa Nicolasa accepts her new job as municipal president of Chipitongo el Alto only to rebuke the town's corrupt secretaries. Mario Nicanor Cruz, the former candidate, plans several schemes along with lawyer Topillo in order to get rid of MarÃÂa.