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Elections in some states in Mexico were held on July 7, 2013. Only 14 states held elections, with the other 17 states and the Federal District not holding elections. [1]
There were elections for 11 mayors and 18 local councillors.
There were elections for the governor, 5 mayors and 25 councillors.
The PAN candidate, Francisco Vega de Lamadrid narrowly defeated PRI candidate Fernando Castro Trenti, and became the next governor of Baja California. [2] The election count was temporarily halted after local officials believed there was an error with an counting algorithm. [3]
The National Action Party, founded in 1939, is a conservative political party in Mexico, one of the three main political parties in Mexico. Since the 1980s, it has been an important political party winning local, state, and national elections. In 2000, PAN candidate Vicente Fox was elected president for a six-year term; in 2006, PAN candidate Felipe Calderón succeeded Fox in the presidency. During the period 2000-2012, both houses of the Congress of the Union contained PAN pluralities, but the party had a majority in neither. In the 2006 legislative elections the party won 207 out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 52 out of 128 Senators. In the 2012 legislative elections, the PAN won 38 seats in the Senate, and 114 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The members of this party are colloquially called Panistas.
Francisco Vega de Lamadrid, also known as Kiko Vega is a Mexican politician of the National Action Party who is the 15th and current Governor of Baja California, for the term from 2013-2019. He previously served as the Municipal President of Tijuana, from 1998 to 2001. He later served as a member of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies as part of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress from 2009 to 2012. He succeeded José Guadalupe Osuna Millán, having taken office on 1 November 2013.
Fernando Jorge Castro Trenti is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served in the LX Legislature of the Mexican Senate and the LXI nowaday as senator representing the State of Baja California.
There were elections for 67 mayors and 33 councillors.
There were elections for 38 mayors in all municipalities.
There were elections for 39 mayors and 30 councillors.
There were elections for 30 mayors.
There were elections for 570 mayors and 42 councillors.
There were elections for 217 mayors and 41 councillors.
There were elections for 10 mayors and 25 councillors.
There were elections for 18 mayors and 40 councillors.
There were elections for 88 mayors and 436 councillors.
There were elections for 60 mayors, 32 councillors, and 391 presidents of communities.
There were elections for 212 mayors and 50 councillors.
There were elections for 58 mayors and 30 councillors.
Cruz Miguel Bustamante is a retired American politician. He was the 45th Lieutenant Governor of California from 1999 to 2007, serving under governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. A member of the Democratic Party, Bustamante previously served as speaker of the state Assembly from 1996 to 1998.
The Mayor of the City of Los Angeles is the official head and chief executive officer of Los Angeles, California, United States. The officeholder is elected for a four-year term and limited to serving no more than two terms. Under the Constitution of California, all judicial, school, county and city offices, including those of chartered cities, are nonpartisan. Eric Garcetti has been the city's 42nd and current mayor since 2013.
Gavin Christopher Newsom is an American politician and businessman. He is the 40th governor of California, serving since January 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. He was sworn in as Governor of California on January 7, 2019.
Francis Michael Jordan is an American politician, former police chief, former mayor of San Francisco and a foundation executive.
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Joyce Ann Karlin served as both a federal prosecutor and a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge. She is most notorious for having sentenced the Korean-American merchant who shot Latasha Harlins in the back of the head to only five years probation and 400 hours of community service, with no jail time. The sentence was widely condemned, including by the LA District Attorney and black community leaders in Los Angeles, and is often cited as a catalyst for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
Hiromu Nonaka was a Japanese LDP politician. He served as a local politician from 1951 to 1978 and in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 2003, becoming one of its most prominent members in the 1990s. He served as Minister of Home Affairs and Head of the National Public Safety Commission from 1994 to 1995, as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1998 to 1999, and as Head of the Okinawa Development Agency in 1999. Nonaka was widely considered as a voice of reason within the LDP.
The Sports Club/LA is a collection of large luxury health clubs located in Los Angeles, New York and major metropolitan cities across the United States.
The Reform Party of California is the state of California's affiliate of the Reform Party of the United States of America. It held its first statewide conference at the Los Angeles Convention center on June 1–2, 1996, where about 1,000 members gathered to hear 1992 presidential candidate Ross Perot and potential Reform Party candidate Richard Lamm, among others.
The 2010 Baja California earthquake occurred on April 4 with a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII. The shock originated at 15:40:41 local time south of Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico.
Fausto Vallejo Figueroa is a Mexican lawyer, politician, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and former governor of Michoacán. He has served three times as mayor of Morelia, Michoacán. On June 18, 2014, he announced he was stepping down as governor to take care of his health.
George David Kieffer is a Los Angeles-based lawyer, author, civic leader and composer. He is also currently the chair of the Board of Regents of the University of California. He is a principal co-author of the Los Angeles City Charter, adopted in 1999, and the author of The Strategy of Meetings. Two-time chair of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, in 2000 and 2010 he was named one of the most influential lawyers in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals. The Los Angeles Business Journal named Kieffer among the leaders in its August 2016 inaugural edition of "The Los Angeles 500: The Most Influential People in Los Angeles".
A special election was held on June 6, 2017, to determine the member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 34th congressional district. A primary election was held on April 4, 2017.
Kimberly Ellis is an American activist and has led as Executive Director of Emerge California since 2010. Ellis is considered a progressive Democrat and formerly served on the California Democratic Party Finance Committee and also on the California Democratic Party's African American Caucus as Recording Secretary.
Monica Rodriguez is an American politician in California. She currently serves as a Los Angeles City Councilmember, and represents the 7th district. The district is located in the San Fernando Valley, and includes the neighborhoods of Pacoima, Sunland-Tujunga, Sylmar, Shadow Hills, Sun Valley, Lake View Terrace, and Mission Hills. Rodriguez was sworn in on July 1, 2017.
John F. Walsh is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado from 2010 to 2016. Walsh was nominated by President Barack Obama on April 14, 2010 and sworn in on in on August 16, 2010. When he stepped down in 2016, Walsh was the longest-serving U.S. attorney in Colorado history.
César Cruz is a gang violence prevention advocate and Dean of Secondary Schools Program at Harvard University. He was born in Guadalajara c. 1974, coming to the United States as an undocumented immigrant at age 9, and holds a B.A. in history from UC Berkeley, and a doctorate in educational leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Education. On May 1, 1992, he was one of 65 people arrested marching on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge after the acquittal of officers charged with beating Rodney King. In 1995, he was involved in a fifteen-day hunger strike at University of California, Irvine. The 1995 strike was undertaken by Cruz and others from UC Berkeley and UC Irvine to protect and promote affirmative action at UC Irvine. Cruz was later part of a 26-day hunger strike in 2004, which resulted in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger agreeing to refinance the West Contra Costa Unified School District's high interest loans. He was keynote speaker for the Cesar Chavez Convocation at UC Santa Cruz in 2014 and Hermanos Unidos National Conference at California State University, Fullerton in 2017. Research at Homeboy Industries, a job skills program in the Los Angeles area for gang members, served as his Harvard doctoral capstone work. He was the first male Mexican-immigrant to earn a doctorate at Harvard's Education Leadership program.
The statue of Heydar Aliyev was installed along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma in 2012. However, the sculpture was relocated in January 2013.
