Cecilia Soto

Cecilia Soto González is a Mexican politician and candidate of Labor Party (PT) to the Presidency of Mexico in the year 1994. In this election she obtained slightly fewer than a million votes and a little less than 3% of the votes. This was a fourth place showing.

She started her political career as member of the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution and resigned from it to accept the presidential nomination of the PT. After the presidential campaign, and in spite of the good results, she had problems with the direction of the party when it did not accept to discuss a series of reforms that she proposed and moved away from the party.

She was represent as a deputy in the local Chamber of Deputy in the State of Sonora from 1988 to 1991. Between 1991 and 1994 she represent as a deputy for the State of Sonora in the LV Legislature of Chamber of Deputies.

In 2000, Vicente Fox appoint her as an Ambassador of Mexico to Brazil, a position she remained in until 2006.

In 2006, she supported PAN candidate, Felipe Calderón.

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*Mexican general election, 1994