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Place of Birth: Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
About Fausto Vallejo
- Fausto Vallejo Figueroa (born May 17, 1949 in Morelia, Michoacán) 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 (1994–1995, 2002–2004 and 2008–2011).
- On June 18, 2014, he announced he was stepping down as governor to take care of his health.Vallejo ran for the governorship of Michoacán in the November 13, 2011, gubernatorial election.
- According to the official results he won the election with 35.39% of the votes, Vallejo narrowly defeated PAN gubernatorial candidate Luisa MarĂa CalderĂłn, the sister of Mexican President Felipe CalderĂłn, by less than 3% of the vote.
- Calderón, who led most opinion polls prior to the election, alleged that drug traffickers based in Michoacán had helped tip the election in Fausto Vallejo's favor.
- A third candidate, Silvano Aureoles of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), placed a distant third with 29%.In August 2014, his son Rodrigo Vallejo Mora was arrested after a video surfaced of him meeting with Servando GĂłmez MartĂnez, fugitive leader of the Knights Templar Cartel, a criminal organization based in Michoacán.
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