Luis Maldonado Venegas

Luis Maldonado Venegas (November 19, 1956 – April 30, 2019) was a Mexican politician and attorney, affiliated to the Party of the Democratic Revolution and served as a proportional representation federal deputy representing Mexico City and the fourth electoral region in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress. Maldonado also served as the national president of the Convergencia political party and represented it in both houses of Congress.

Life

PRI career In 1974, Maldonado Venegas joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party and began studying his law degree at the UNAM and Escuela Libre de Derecho.

Between 1996 and 1997, he was the PRI's national secretary of planning and propaganda.

In 2006, Maldonado Venegas became the national president of Convergence for a three-year term and alternate senator to Luis Aburto Walton. When Walton sought to run for the municipal presidency of Acapulco in 2008 and took leave, Maldonado Venegas replaced him and became a senator in the last year of the LX Legislature and first two years of the LXI Legislature. He was the Convergence parliamentary coordinator in the Senate and sat on the Political Coordination Board, in addition to multiple commissions: Public Security, Federal District, Tourism, Administration, Justice, Constitutional Points, Special on Climate Change, Special on Celebrations for the Bicentennial of Independence and Centennial of the Revolution, and Special for Analysis of Public Finances.

On February 1, 2011, Maldonado left the Senate, coinciding with the installation of a new government in the state of Puebla, in which Convergence was part of the winning coalition. He served as the state secretary of public education between 2011 and 2013, and as its secretary general of government between 2013 and 2015.

PRD In 2014, Maldonado Venegas joined the Party of the Democratic Revolution and almost immediately became its national Coordinator of Strategic Connection. In 2015, Maldonado was placed on the PRD's list of proportional representation federal deputies from the fourth region and won a seat in the LXIII Legislature. He presided over the Oversight Commission for the Superior Auditor of the Federation and also sat on those dealing with Urban Development and Land Use, as well as Public Education and Educational Services.