José Sabino Herrera Dagdug (born 21 June 1980) is a Mexican politician from the state of

Tabasco Tabasco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco, is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Tabasco, 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa. It i ...

. Previously affiliated with the

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(PRD), as a senator-elect for his home state he joined the ranks of the

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(Morena) on 28 August 2024.

Career

Herrera Dagdug was born into a cattle-raising family in Huimanguillo, Tabasco, in 1980. He is a graduate in veterinary medicine. He served in the Congress of Tabasco from 2013 to 2015, and was

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of Huimanguillo in 2016–2018. In the 2024 general election he contended for one of Tabasco's

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seats representing the ''

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'' coalition between the PRD, the

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(PRI) and the National Action Party (PAN). The coalition placed second in the state and Herrera Dagdug was awarded the state's third seat in the Senate. Days before the 66th congressional session was about to begin, however, he and Araceli Saucedo Reyes, senator-elect for

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, announced their defection from the PRD to the ruling

(Morena) party. The move left Morena and its allies one seat short of controlling

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in both chambers of Congress. The defections were decried by PRD President Jesús Zambrano, who said they were a decisive step towards the death of

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. Marko Cortés, the president of the National Action Party, said that the two senators had "betrayed millions of Mexicans who voted to defend the country" and that their names should be inscribed on the national wall of shame.

References

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