Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío

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In this
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Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío
Official portrait, 2022
Governor of Baja California Sur
Assumed office
10 September 2021
Preceded byCarlos Mendoza Davis
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
for Baja California Sur's 2nd district
In office
1 September 2009 – 31 August 2012
Preceded byVíctor Manuel Lizárraga
Succeeded byArturo de la Rosa Escalante
Municipal president of La Paz
In office
2005–2008
Preceded byVíctor Guluarte Castro
Succeeded byRosa Delia Cota Montaño
Personal details
Born (1955-06-14) 14 June 1955 (age 68)
MORENA
OccupationPolitician

Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío (born 14 June 1955) is a Mexican politician currently affiliated with the

National Regeneration Movement. He is the governor of Baja California Sur
.

Life

Castro became a teacher and member of the SNTE teachers' union at 19, teaching middle school classes in civic education, history, Spanish and philosophy.[1] Castro also affiliated with the Workers' Revolutionary Party, an early left-wing political party; he sat on its Political State Committee between 1980 and 1984, and on its national central committee between 1986 and 1989.

By 1999, Castro had changed his party affiliation to the

San Lázaro.[1]

In 2015, Castro departed from the PRD and ran as the Morena candidate in the Baja California Sur gubernatorial election of that year, finishing fourth with 6.41 percent of the vote as the state reaffirmed its shift to PAN dominance by re-electing that party in the person of Carlos Mendoza Davis.[2]

In December 2017, Castro announced his intention to seek the Morena nomination for Senate in 2018.

Lucía Trasviña Waldenrath placed first, sending both candidates to the Senate. However, on 12 July 2018, president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that Castro would be named a state-level coordinator in the new federal government when López Obrador takes office on 1 December; his alternate, Ricardo Velázquez Meza, would serve as senator in his stead.[4] He resigned on October 31, 2020 to seek the candidacy of Morena for the Governorship of Baja California Sur.[5]

Governor of Baja California Sur

On 6 June 2021, Castro was elected Governor of Baja California Sur winning between 44.0% to 46.8% of the vote. Castro defeated National Action Party (Mexico) candidate Francisco Pelayo Covarrubias.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Perfil del legislador". Legislative Information System. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  2. ^ Instituto Estatal Electoral de Baja California Sur. "Resultados Electorales 2015". Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Anuncia Víctor Castro precandidatura a Senaduría por BCS con Morena". SDP Noticias (in Spanish). 22 December 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Es oficial: Víctor Castro tendrá el puesto más importante del Gobierno Federal en BCS". BCS Noticias. 12 July 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Anuncia Víctor Castro su renuncia a Coordinación de Programas Federales".
  6. ^ "Morena gana gobiernos de BC y BCS en sonteos rapidos". Forbes MX. 6 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
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Political offices
Preceded by
Víctor Guluarte Castro
 Municipal President of La Paz
2005–2008 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Governor of Baja California Sur
2021–present 		Incumbent
Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Preceded by Member of the Chamber of Deputies
for Baja California Sur's 2nd District
2009–2012 		Succeeded by
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