Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo
Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo | |
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Emilio Chuayffet Chemor | |
Succeeded by | Óscar Martín Arce Paniagua |
Personal details | |
Born | Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico | 3 June 1964
Political party | Party of the Democratic Revolution |
Spouse | Sonia Ibarra[1] |
Occupation | Deputy |
Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo (born 3 June 1964) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution. He represents Nayarit and the first electoral region as a deputy to the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.[2]
Life
While he was born in Sinaloa, most of Acosta Naranjo's political career has developed in the state of Nayarit. He attended the
After some time away from politics, Acosta Naranjo made a mark again in the mid-2000s within the PRD party structure. He was the subsecretary general during 2003, the national Secretary of Planning and Institutional Development from 2003 to 2004, and the Secretary of Organization from 2004 to 2005.[2] Most notably, he became the secretary general, the second-in-command of the party, from 2005 to 2008, and the interim president during 2008 after Leonel Cota Montaño left. He also clashed with Andrés Manuel López Obrador, disagreeing with his decision to disrupt the delivery of Vicente Fox's final government report in the aftermath of the 2006 presidential election.[1]
In 2009, the PRD placed Acosta Naranjo on its list from the fifth region, sending him to the Chamber of Deputies for the
In 2015, Acosta Naranjo returned to
Acosta Naranjo is noted for his positions on opposing the PRI at all costs, sometimes even supporting other political parties to get the PRI out of office. In the 2016 Tamaulipas gubernatorial elections, he called on the opposition to unite behind PAN opposition candidate Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, claiming his endorsement was not an abandonment of his party and threatening legal action if the PRD responded with a move to expel him.[3] In a May 2016 radio interview, he also claimed that if the opposition united under a single candidate, the PRI would not win any elections.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e Excélsior (23 June 2008). "Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo. De chalán y cañero a líder del PRD". Nayarit en Línea (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 July 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Perfil del legislador" (in Spanish). Legislative Information System. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
- ^ "Acosta Naranjo se suma a proyecto de Cabeza de Vaca". El Diario de Victoria (in Spanish). 20 May 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
- ^ "Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo: Si la oposición se uniera el PRI no ganaría ninguna elección". Noticias MVS (in Spanish). 27 May 2016. Archived from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2016.