José Francisco Olvera Ruiz (born June 15, 1956) is a Mexican

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and a member of

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. He was

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(Mayor) of

Pachuca Pachuca (; ote, Nju̱nthe), formally known as Pachuca de Soto, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. It is located in the south-central part of the state. Pachuca de Soto is also the name of the municipality of whic ...

and from April 1, 2011, to September 5, 2016, served as

Governor of Hidalgo The governor of Hidalgo is the head of the executive branch of government of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. From the establishment of the office, 78 individuals have served as Hidalgo's governor including those who served on a provisional or int ...

Biography

Francisco Olvera was born on June 15, 1956, in

Pachuca de Soto Pachuca (; ote, Nju̱nthe), formally known as Pachuca de Soto, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. It is located in the south-central part of the state. Pachuca de Soto is also the name of the municipality of whi ...

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, He completed his studies in laws in the

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( en, Autonomous University of Hidalgo). He has a

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from the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey and the

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. He's married with María Guadalupe Romero Delgado, and has two children, Francisco and Jorge Olvera Romero.

Political career

He was Secretary of Government with the

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Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong (; 5 August 1964) is a Mexican politician who served as the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto. He was Governor of Hidalgo until April 2011. Early life Born in Pachuca, Hidalgo, he is a ...

. He was Deputy of the Congress of Hidalgo from 2002 to 2005 for the I Distrito Electoral Local de Hidalgo ( en, First local electoral district of Hidalgo); from 1999 to 2001 he served as legal coordinator; before, in 1995, he served as director of the general file of notaries in Hidalgo. He served for nine years as director of

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in the

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Municipal President of Pachuca

Francisco Olvera took office as municipal president (mayor) of Pachuca on January 18, 2009. As mayor, he was a founding partner of the association of

Municipalities of Hidalgo Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo is a Administrative divisions of Mexico#States, state in central Mexico divided into 84 municipalities of Mexico, municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, Hidalgo is the States of Mexico, 16th most populous st ...

, association that is affiliated with the national federation of

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. On April 10, 2010; the

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( es, Procuraduría General de la República) started a preliminary investigation against him, to receive ''(according to the denunciation)'' more than 30 million of

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from narcotrafico, primarily of

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group; for his campaign for mayor of

. The next day, Olvera ruled out any connection with

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, and after several investigations, charges against him were dismissed.

Governor Campaign

Francisco Olvera leave as mayor to run for the candidacy of

(PRI) to the government of Hidalgo. On April 7, 2010; he became the candidate of the coalition ''“Unidos por tí”'' ( en, Together for you), composed by (PRI),

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and New Alliance parties. He won in the elections of July 4, 2010. He was appointed elect-governor on July 11. In July 2010, coalition ''"Hidalgo nos Une"'' formally filed a complain to the electoral process, which sought to void the elections. After analyzing the evidence presented by the parties, the Court decided to annul the vote in 32 boxes, the final votes of the election were 876,165. ''Hidalgo nos Une'' with its candidate Xóchitl Gálvez has 394,049 votes and ''Unidos por tí'' with Olvera has 438,094 votes

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