César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta (born

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, July 20, 1952) is a

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politician, member of the

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, previously member of the

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; is for third consecutive occasion, candidate of the PRD for

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. César Raúl Ojeda studied

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at the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

and is a well-known businessman in the hotel industry. He began his political career inside the

, serving in the LII Legislature of the Congress of Tabasco. That carried him as the candidate to Federal Deputy in the I District of

Tabasco Tabasco (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco), is one of the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa. It is located in ...

to the LVI Legislature in 1994 then he was elected. In 2000 the PRD nominated him as their candidate for governor, after he left the PRI with the supposed insurance that he would be the candidate of the PRD to the governorship,

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, to decide to compete for the Government of the

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, in these elections was faced for first you see that PRI candidate Manuel Andrade Díaz, the elections gave the triumph to Andrade, the

Federal Electoral Tribunal The Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary ( es, Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación, or ) is a venue within the judiciary of Mexico that specialises in electoral matters. Among its functions are resolving disputes aris ...

resolved the annulment of the elections that to consider that the government state headline by

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had favored illegally to Andrade, the elections were repeated with the same candidates and Ojeda again was defeated, although the accused again that PRI candidate of fraud. According to results of the Electoral Institute of the State of Tabasco, not winner of this electoral process resulted, nevertheless, itself informed of the results of the election before the

, that on December 27, 2006 emitted its resolution, declaring 7 polling stations annulled, but ratifying the triumph of Andrés Granier Melo, to declare that the

Coalition for the Good of All The Coalition for the Good of All ( es, Coalición por el Bien de Todos) was a left-wing coalition created by the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Convergence and the Labor Party (PT) to support Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a candid ...

managed to show the irregularities that had denounced.They validate election in Tabasco despite admit irregularities
''El Universal'', 27 December 2006.

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