Carlos Medina Plascencia

Carlos Medina Plascencia (León, Guanajuato, August 14, 1955) is a Mexican chemical engineer, businessman and politician. He has served as municipal president of León from 1988 to 1991, as interim governor of Guanajuato from 1991 to 1995, as a federal deputy from 1997 to 2000, and as a senator of the Republic from 2000 to 2006. He is a member of the National Action Party. He is currently the national director of the company BNI (Business Network International)

Academic trajectory

Medina Plascencia was born on August 14, 1955 in the city of León, Guanajuato. He graduated as an Administrative Chemical Engineer at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus and obtained his Master's Degree in Administration at the Mexico City Campus of the same institution.

Political career

In 1985 he decided to join the National Action Party and as a candidate of that party he was elected Mayor of the León City Council from 1986 to 1988 and Municipal President of León from 1989 to 1991, being the first opposition municipal president in the history of the municipality.

After finding evidence of financing by the state government to the then governor-elect Ramón Aguirre Velázquez, the state Congress decided to name him interim Governor, becoming the first opposition governor in Guanajuato from 1991 to 1995 but on an interim basis.

From 1997 to 2000 he served as Federal deputy in the LVII Legislature in which he participated as coordinator of the Parliamentary Group of his party and president of the Chamber of Deputies in 1999; he was also elected plurinominal senator for his party from 2000 to 2006 in the LVIII and LIX Legislatures. In March 2004, he acknowledged his interest in seeking the presidency of Mexico in the 2006 elections.

In 2012 he participated in the campaign of Josefina Vázquez Mota for the Presidency of the Republic, and in 2015 he was part of the list of Héctor López Santillana as candidate for the first trustee of the City Council of León 2015-2018, taking oath of office on October 10 of that year.

Panistas for Mexico

On June 5, 2013, Medina Plascencia, along with former governors Ernesto Ruffo Appel, Fernando Canales Clariond, Fernando Elizondo Barragán, Francisco Barrio Terrazas and Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez, all members of Acción Nacional, presented a movement called Panistas por México, which is made up of 80 party members and headed by former governors. They made it known that the movement is inspired by citizen reason and that it seeks to strengthen the party. They also reproached the disputes between maderistas and corderistas , which they point out, damage the party.

Ruffo Appel, Medina Plascencia and the former president of the party Luis Felipe Bravo Mena, who is also part of the movement, had originally been contemplated to run for the leadership of the party, however, both Ruffo and Medina Plascencia declined and Bravo Mena accepted. only if there was a unity candidacy with another of the candidates for the presidency of the party, but it was not achieved.

That is why Ruffo Appel considered inviting Josefina Vázquez Mota, the former presidential candidate, to be part of the group and to run for the leadership of Acción Nacional, during a breakfast on October 15, 2013. Vázquez Mota said he would consider it and that would depend on personal and family assessments.

However, on February 26, 2014, at a press conference accompanied by Bravo Mena and Medina Plascencia, she finally ruled herself out of the candidacy for the presidency of her party, despite claiming to be ahead in the polls for the leadership, since their participation with the current conditions would not contribute to their return to their vocation as a civic school and a tool to build ideas and the best citizen causes in the party.

Medina Plascencia commented that the movement would not support any of the candidates and that they would not have their own, and took the opportunity to ask that they respect the dignity of the militant.