Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes

Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes
Personal details
Political party Social Encounter Party
Education J.D.
Alma mater Harvard University

Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes is a Mexican politician and founder of the Social Encounter Party (PES). He is the party's national president and one of its eight federal deputies in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.

Life

Flores obtained a law degree from the UNAM in 1992 and two degrees from Harvard University: a master's degree in public, economic and gubernatorial law in 1996, as well as a J.D. in 2001.[1] In addition to becoming a partner at the law firm of Durán, Flores and Soria, he was the pastor of Casa sobre la Roca (House on the Rock), a Neo-Pentecostal church which supported Felipe Calderón in the 2006 presidential elections.[2]

Founding Social Encounter

In 2006, Social Encounter was founded as a national political group, which unlike a party, is not federally funded; it also organized as a party in Baja California. That same year, after Calderón's election, he obtained a civil service position in the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT). After six months in the post, he was accused by the secretariat's internal oversight agency for disobeying orders from the secretary and altering a document, prompting his removal and barring him from a public service position until 2020.[3] Additionally, for the LX and LXI Legislatures, Flores was an unused alternate senator for the National Action Party; he had previously been an alternate federal deputy for the Institutional Revolutionary Party.[3][1]

In 2014, concurrent with Social Encounter's transition to a national political party, Flores was named President of the National Directive Committee of the party, its highest position.[1]

Federal deputy

The PES placed Flores Cervantes atop its list of candidates for proportional representation seats in the Chamber of Deputies from the fourth electoral region (representing Mexico City), guaranteeing him a seat in the Chamber of Deputies for the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress. He sits on the Social Development, Finances and Public Credit, and Constitutional Points Commissions, as well as the Committee for the Center for the Study of Public Finances.[1] Additionally, he has been designated a PES representative in various capacities, including before the National Electoral Institute[4] and as one of the fourteen designees of the Chamber of Deputies to the Constitutional Assembly of Mexico City.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 SIL Profile: Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes (LXIII Legislature)
  2. ↑ Águilar, Rubén (2014-09-09). "Partido Encuentro Social (PES)". Animal Político. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
  3. 1 2 Mejía, José Gerardo (2014-11-03). "Oscuro pasado del líder de Encuentro Social". El Universal. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
  4. ↑ http://www5.diputados.gob.mx/index.php/esl/Comunicacion/Agencia-de-Noticias/2015/Septiembre/24/241-Designa-Partido-Encuentro-Social-al-diputado-Hugo-Eric-Flores-Cervantes-como-consejero-propietario-del-Poder-Legislativo-ante-el-INE
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