María Cristina Díaz Salazar is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the

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(PRI). She is a former municipal president (mayor) of Guadalupe, Nuevo León. Today, she is senator for the state of Nuevo León.

Education and professional career

Díaz Salazar studied

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at the

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(UANL). She is an active member of the PRI who has occupied various positions inside her party including president of the PRI in Nuevo León. She has served as advisor for the IMSS, head of the

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in Nuevo León, local deputy in the

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, and has served in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico during the LVI and LIX Legislature. In 2006 she was elected to serve as municipal president (mayor) of the municipality of Guadalupe.

Duties in the Institutional Revolutionary Party

She was the secretary general of the PRI, until December 2, 2011. After the resignation of

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, she became the interim president of the party; but when

Pedro Joaquín Coldwell Pedro Joaquín Coldwell (born August 5, 1950 in Cozumel, Quintana Roo) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Personal life and education Joaquín Coldwell studied law at the Universidad Iberoamer ...

took office as president of the party, she became the secretary general of the party again on December 8, 2011.

References

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