Gricelda Valencia de la Mora
{{short description|Mexican politician}}
{{Family name hatnote|Valencia|de la Mora|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Gricelda Valencia de la Mora
| image = Senadora_Gricelda_Valencia_de_la_Mora_en_el_pleno.jpg
| caption =
| office = Senator of the Congress of the Union
for Colima
| term_start = 1 September 2018
| alongside = Joel Padilla Peña and Gabriela Benavides Cobos
| predecessor = Itzel Ríos de la Mora
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1973|12|27}}
| birth_place = Colima, Mexico
| education = {{plainlist|
- UAA
- La Concordia University
}}
| occupation = Politician
| party = Morena
| otherparty = Progressive Movement
}}
Gricelda Valencia de la Mora (born 27 December 1973) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement party. From 2018 to 2024, she was a senator of the Congress of the Union representing the state of Colima,{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=Senadora Gricelda Valencia de la Mora |url=https://www.senado.gob.mx/64/senador/1091 |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=www.senado.gob.mx}} and in 2024 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies.
Political career
Gricelda Valencia de la Mora was born in Colima, Mexico, in 1973. She studied a degree in pedagogy at the Universidad Multitécnica Profesional Colima.{{Cite web |title=Perfil: Sen. Gricelda Valencia de la Mora, LXIV Legislatura |url=http://sil.gobernacion.gob.mx/Librerias/pp_PerfilLegislador.php?Referencia=9221871 |access-date=2023-09-14 |publisher=SEGOB |website=Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL)}} In the federal elections of 2012, she was nominated as a candidate for senator for the state of Colima by the Progressive Movement coalition, made up of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the Labor Party (PT) and the Citizen Movement party (MC). In the elections, she came in third place, with approximately 15% of the votes cast in her favor.{{Cite web |date=2018-03-16 |title=La apuesta de AMLO al Senado en Colima |url=https://estacionpacifico.com/2018/03/16/la-apuesta-de-amlo-al-senado-en-colima/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=Estación Pacífico |language=es}}
In the 2018 federal elections, she was nominated as a second-party senator for the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party after Indira Vizcaíno Silva renounced her candidacy for the senate to run as a candidate for federal representative for district 1 of Colima.{{Cite web |date=2018-04-16 |title=Gricelda Valencia será candidata por Morena al Senado en Colima |url=https://www.colimanoticias.com/gricelda-valencia-sera-candidata-por-morena-al-senado-en-colima/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |publisher=Colima Noticias}} In the elections, held on July 1, her candidacy was elected with nearly 43% of the votes cast in her favor.{{Cite web |date=2018-08-09 |title=Reciben constancia de senadores electos Joel Padilla Peña y Gricelda Valencia |url=https://elcomentario.ucol.mx/reciben-constancia-de-senadores-electos-joel-padilla-pena-y-gricelda-valencia/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |publisher=El Comentario. Universidad de Colima |archive-date=2020-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716081735/https://elcomentario.ucol.mx/reciben-constancia-de-senadores-electos-joel-padilla-pena-y-gricelda-valencia/ |url-status=dead }} On September 1, 2018, she held the seat of second-party senator representing the state of Colima in the 64th session of the Congress of the Union. Within the Senate, she held the position of president of the social security commission.
In the 2024 general election, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent Colima's 2nd district for the 2024–2027 term.{{cite web |title=Perfil: Dip. Gricelda Valencia de la Mora, LXVI Legislatura |publisher=SEGOB |website=Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) |accessdate=4 September 2024 |url=http://sil.gobernacion.gob.mx/Librerias/pp_PerfilLegislador.php?SID=&Referencia=9228272}}
Controversies
In January 2020, the state leader of Morena in Colima, Sergio Jiménez Bojado, accused Gricelda Valencia of having tricked party supporters into attending the assemblies of the organization "Force for Mexico" so that it could be established as a national political party.{{Cite web |date=2020-01-13 |title=Gricelda Valencia engañó a militantes de Morena para que respaldaran a Fuerza Social: Jiménez Bojado |url=https://www.colimanoticias.com/gricelda-valencia-engano-a-militantes-de-morena-para-que-respaldaran-a-fuerza-social-jimenez-bojado/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |publisher=Colima Noticias}}{{Cite web |last=Bravo |first=Francis |date=2020-01-13 |title=Iniciará Morena proceso en contra de Gricelda Valencia |url=https://elcomentario.ucol.mx/iniciara-morena-proceso-en-contra-de-gricelda-valencia/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |publisher=El Comentario. Universidad de Colima |archive-date=2020-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129201119/https://elcomentario.ucol.mx/iniciara-morena-proceso-en-contra-de-gricelda-valencia/ |url-status=dead }}