Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes is a Mexican

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and founder of the

Social Encounter Party Social Encounter Party ( es, Partido Encuentro Social, PES) was a Mexican conservative political party established on the national level in 2014 and dissolved in 2018. It was part of the coalition ''Juntos Haremos Historia'' with the National R ...

(PES). He was the party's national president and one of its eight federal deputies in the

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. He currently is president of the party’s successor, the

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Early life

Flores obtained a law degree from

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in 1992 and two degrees from

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: a master's degree in public, economic and gubernatorial law in 1996, as well as a J.D. in 2001. In addition to becoming a partner at the law firm of Durán, Flores and Soria, he was the pastor of ''Casa sobre la Roca'' (House on the Rock), a

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church which supported

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in the

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Social Encounter

In 2006, Social Encounter was founded as a national political group, which unlike a party, is not federally funded; it also organized as a party in

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. That same year, after Calderón's election, he obtained a civil service position in the

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(SEMARNAT). After six months in the post, he was accused by the secretariat's internal oversight agency for disobeying orders from the secretary and altering a document, prompting his removal and barring him from a public service position until 2020. Additionally, for the LX and

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Legislatures, Flores was an unused alternate senator for the National Action Party; he had previously been an alternate federal deputy for the

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. In 2014, concurrent with Social Encounter's transition to a national political party, Flores was named President of the National Directive Committee of the party, its highest position.

Federal deputy

The PES placed Flores Cervantes at the top of its list of candidates for proportional representation seats in the

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from the fourth electoral region (representing

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), guaranteeing him a seat in the

for the

. He sits on the Social Development, Finances and Public Credit, and Constitutional Points Commissions, as well as the Committee for the Center for the Study of Public Finances.SIL Profile: Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes (LXIII Legislature)
/ref> Additionally, he has been designated a PES representative in various capacities, including before the

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and as one of the fourteen designees of the Chamber of Deputies to the

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. In June 2020 Flores Cervantes denied allegations of links to organized crime.

References

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