Francisco Domínguez Servién (born 11 August 1966) is a

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politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN). He served as

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Querétaro Querétaro (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro, links=no; Otomi language, Otomi: ''Hyodi Ndämxei''), is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. I ...

from 2016 to 2021. Previously, he also served as Senator of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Querétaro and Deputy during the LX Legislature. In March 2020 he tested positive for

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, from which he later recovered. Governor Domínguez Servién was accused by

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, former director of

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, in July 2020 of receiving bribes in 2013-2014 to support energy reform legislation. Domínguez Servién fired his secretary, Guillermo Gutiérrez Badillo in August after the latter and a senator appeared on
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receiving money from a director of Pemex. The governor denied having previous knowledge of the incident.

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