María Cristina Díaz Salazar (born 17 September 1958) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...

(PRI). She is a former

municipal president A ''presidente municipal'' ( English: "municipal president") is the chief of government of municipios in Mexico. This title was also used in the Philippines during the Spanish and American colonial periods; it is comparable to a mayor of the tow ...

(mayor) of Guadalupe,

Nuevo León Nuevo León, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León, is a Administrative divisions of Mexico, state in northeastern Mexico. The state borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí, San Luis ...

. 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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. She was also elected to the

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during the 56th ( Nuevo León's 9th),

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( plurinominal) and 61st ( Nuevo León's 11th) sessions of

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

Humberto Moreira Humberto Moreira Valdés (born 28 July 1966) is a Mexican politician who served as President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of the State of Coahuila from 2005 to 2011. Moreira was included in a list of the "10 most c ...

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, she became the interim president of the party; but when Pedro Joaquín Coldwell took office as president of the party, she became the general secretary of the party again on 8 December 2011.

References

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