José Guadarrama Márquez is a Mexican

Mexico

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 politician recently affiliated to the Party of the Democratic Revolution

Party of the Democratic Revolution

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 (PRD) who currently

LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress

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 serves in the upper house

Senate of Mexico

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 of the Mexican Congress

Congress of Mexico

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Career

Guadarrama is a professor who had a long and notable political career in the State of Hidalgo as an Institutional Revolutionary Party

Institutional Revolutionary Party

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 (PRI) member. He served as federal deputy from 1978 to 1982 and as senator from 1994 to 2000. He has also occupied different position within the Government of Hidalgo.

In 1999 he unsuccessfully tried to obtain the PRI candidacy for the gubernatorial elections but was defeated by Manuel Angel Núñez Soto

Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto

Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Revolutionary Institutional Party . He is a former governor of Hidalgo....

; In 2005 he tried again but this time he was defeated by Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong

Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong

Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party and was Governor of Hidalgo until April of 2011. He is of Chinese descent.-Political career:...

, then, following the primaries results in Hidalgo, he left the PRI and ran for governor representing the PRD; he lost the election. In 2006 he ran for senator as the Coalition for the Good of All

Coalition for the Good of All

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 candidate; this time he won the election therefore he was elected to served during the LX

LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress

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 and LXI Legislatures

LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress

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(2006–2012).