Noé Fernando Castañón Ramírez (born 24 September 1977) is a Mexican politician. Since October 30, 2018, he is a senator of the Union Congress in the LXIV legislature representing the state of

Chiapas Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas, is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises Municipalities of Chiapas, 124 municipalities and its capital and large ...

. He is part of the Movimiento Ciudadano bench. He was a local deputy of the

Congress of Chiapas The Congress of the State of Chiapas () is the legislative branch of the government of the State of Chiapas. It was constituted for the first time after the state's accession to Mexico on 5 January 1825. The Congress is the governmental deliber ...

from 2012 to 2015.

Early years

Noé Fernando Castañón Ramírez was born on 24 September 1977 in the state of

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

. He is the son of Noé Castañón León, who was a minister of the

Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (, SCJN) is the Mexican institution serving as the country's federal high court and the spearhead organisation for the judiciary of the Mexican Federal Government. Judges of the SCJN are appointed ...

. In 1998 he joined 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). From 1998 to 2003 he studied law at the

Universidad Iberoamericana The Ibero-American University (), also referred to by its acronym ''UIA'' but commonly known as ''Ibero'' or ''La Ibero'', is a private, Catholic, Mexican higher education institution, sponsored by the Mexican province of the Society of Jesus ( ...

. In 2003 he studied for a Diploma in Public and International Law at

London Metropolitan University London Metropolitan University, commonly known as London Met, is a public university, public research university in London, England. The University of North London and London Guildhall University merged in 2002 to create the university. The Un ...

. From 2005 to 2007 he studied for a doctorate in government and public administration at the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

. In 2007 he studied for a master's degree in business administration at the Business Institute.

Political career

From 2012 to 2015 he was a local deputy of the LXV legislature of the

for the

(PRI) representing district 1, based in

Tuxtla Gutiérrez Tuxtla Gutiérrez, or Tuxtla, (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Mexico, Mexican southeastern state of Chiapas. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name, which is the most developed and populous in the state. A busy govern ...

, serving as president of the board of directors. From 2014 to 2017 he was president of the municipal steering committee of the PRI in Tuxtla Gutiérrez. In the 2018 federal elections, Noé Castañón stood as a substitute for Eduardo Lozano Grajales for the position of senator of the republic representing the state of

for the

Todos por México Everyone for Mexico (), was a political coalition encompassing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), New Alliance (PANAL), and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) to compete in the 2018 Mexican general election led by the presumptiv ...

coalition, made up of the

(PRI), the

Ecologist Green Party of Mexico The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (, , PVEM or PVE) is a green political party in Mexico. Founded in 1986, the party is associated with Jorge González Torres and his son Jorge Emilio González Martínez. It has seldom gotten more than 10% of ...

(PVEM) and New Alliance (PANAL). On June 1, a month before the elections, Lozano Grajales submitted his resignation to his nomination for the Senate, asking that his place be filled by Alejandra Lagunes. However, the

National Electoral Institute The Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) (Spanish for ''National Electoral Institute'') (formerly Federal Electoral Institute) (, IFE) is an autonomous, public agency responsible for organizing federal elections in Mexico, that is, those relat ...

(INE) determined that the application could not be delivered to another person. Consequently, Noé Castañón remained as the only member of the formula. In the July 1 elections, the candidacy presented by the "Todos por México" coalition won the first minority seat in Chiapas, a position that Castañón would occupy as a substitute for Lozano Grajales. On July 3, Eduardo Lozano Grajales asked the electoral authority to annul his resignation in order to occupy the seat he had abandoned before the elections; however, on July 7, the INE ratified Lozano Grajales' resignation and the obligation that the seat was occupied by Noé Castañón.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Castanon Ramirez, Noe Living people 1977 births Politicians from Chiapas Citizens' Movement (Mexico) politicians Senators of the LXIV and LXV Legislatures of Mexico Members of the Congress of Chiapas Universidad Iberoamericana alumni Complutense University of Madrid alumni