Francisco Rojas Toledo
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Francisco Antonio Rojas Toledo (b. January 29, 1956) is a Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
politician. A member of the National Action Party
National Action Party (Mexico)
The National Action Party , is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. The party's political platform is generally considered Centre-Right in the Mexican political spectrum. Since 2000, the President of Mexico has been a member of this party; both houses have PAN pluralities, but the...
, he was his party's candidate for Governor of Chiapas
Governor of Chiapas
This is a list of governors of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The state constitution stipulates a term of 6 years, to which governors can only be elected once. It also specifies the qualifications for becoming Governor: a Mexican citizen by birth, aged at least 30 years old, and having not less than...
in the 2006 elections
Chiapas state election, 2006
A local election was held in the Mexican state of Chiapas on Sunday, August 20, 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the local level, a new Governor of Chiapas to serve a six-year term.-Gubernatorial election:...
before he withdraw his candidacy in favor of the PRI-PVEM candidate, José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas
José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas
José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party; at present, he is candidate of the Allianza por Chiapas for governor of Chiapas....
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Francisco Rojas Toledo is a doctor surgeon with specialization in gynecology, he was elected in 2003 as Federal Deputy for the IX Federal Electoral District of Chiapas to the LIX Legislature
LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress
The LIX Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met from September 2003 to August 2006. All members of the lower house of the Congress were elected in the elections of July 2003 while members of the upper house were elected in the elections of July 2000.-Chamber of Deputies:-Senate of...
, and in 2006 he had been nominated as the candidate to Senator by his state, but finally was nominated candidate to the governor by the National Executive Committee of his party, that preferred the proposal of an own candidate to one external, among the ones that he had mentioned ex-governor, Roberto Albores Guillén. On August 10, 2006, he declined his candidacy in favor to José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas
José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas
José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party; at present, he is candidate of the Allianza por Chiapas for governor of Chiapas....
, candidate of the Alliance for Chiapas, to do a common front against the candidate of the Coalition for the Good of All
Coalition for the Good of All
The Coalition for the Good of All was a left-wing coalition created by the Party of the Democratic Revolution , Convergence and the Labor Party to support Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a candidate for the presidency of Mexico in the general election of 2006...
, Juan Sabines Guerrero
Juan Sabines Guerrero
Juan José Sabines Guerrero is a Mexican politician, son of the former Governor of Chiapas, Juan Sabines Gutiérrez and nephew of the writer Jaime Sabines, until 2006 he was member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party that carried him to be Municipal President of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, but renounced...
, was to consider that this has the support of the government of Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía
Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía
Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía is a Mexican politician.Born to rural teachers who enrolled to him at the age of 17 at the Autonomous University of Puebla, he obtained the title of Lawyer, Notary and Actuary. In 1978 he returned to Chiapas. He professes the evangelical religion of the Church of the...
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See also
- Chiapas state election, 2006Chiapas state election, 2006A local election was held in the Mexican state of Chiapas on Sunday, August 20, 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the local level, a new Governor of Chiapas to serve a six-year term.-Gubernatorial election:...