Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes

Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes (born 2 March 1969) is a Mexican politician, attorney, and Neo-Pentecostal pastor. He founded Building Societies of Peace (PAZ), a conservative political party. He also founded two other parties Social Encounter Party (PES), and its successor, the Solidarity Encounter Party. Flores Cervantes was both parties' national president and one of the Social Encounter Party's eight federal deputies in the 63rd session of Congress. He is currently a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Morena.

Early life and education Flores Cervantes obtained a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (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.

Social Encounter Party In 2006, the Social Encounter Party was founded as a national political group, which, unlike a party, is not federally funded; it was 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 of disobeying orders from the secretary and altering a document, prompting his removal and barring him from a public service position until 2020.

Additionally, for the 60th and 61st sessions of Congress, Flores Cervantes was an unused alternate senator for the National Action Party (PAN); he had previously been an alternate federal deputy for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Additionally, he has been designated a PES representative in various capacities, including before the National Electoral Institute and as one of the fourteen designees of the Chamber of Deputies to the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City.

In June 2020, Flores Cervantes denied allegations of links to organized crime.

In September 2023, he filed paperwork with the National Electoral Institute, enabling him to collect signatures for a possible run as an independent candidate for president of Mexico in the 2024 general election. His bid was unsuccessful.

In the 2024 general election, he was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a plurinominal deputy for the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).