Eva Contreras Sandoval is a Mexican

Mexico

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 politician affiliated to the National Action Party

National Action Party (Mexico)

The National Action Party , is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. The party's political platform is generally considered Centre-Right in the Mexican political spectrum. Since 2000, the President of Mexico has been a member of this party; both houses have PAN pluralities, but the...

 (PAN) who serves in the upper house

Senate of Mexico

The Senate of the Republic, constitutionally Chamber of Senators of the Honorable Congress of the Union After a series of reforms during the 1990s, it is now made up of 128 senators:...

 of the Mexican Congress

Congress of Mexico

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.

Political career

Contreras served as head of the Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta is a Mexican balneario resort city situated on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas.The 2010 census reported Puerto Vallarta's population as 255,725 making it the sixth-largest city in the state of Jalisco...

 DIF

Desarrollo Integral de la Familia

The National System for Integral Family Development is a Mexican public institution of social assistance that focuses on strengthening and developing the welfare of the Mexican families...

 during the municipal presidency of her husband. In 2006 she was elected a member (regidora) of the municipality of Puerto Vallarta. During the 2006 congressional elections

Mexican general election, 2006

A general election was held in Mexico on Sunday, July 2, 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the federal level:*A new President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing then Mexican President Vicente Fox .*500 members to serve for a...

 she ran as substitute senator of candidate Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez; Cárdenas

Cárdenas

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 won the election but left that position to join President Caderón

Felipe Calderón

Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa is the current President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for a single six-year term through 2012...

's cabinet, thus Contreras will be serving as substitute senator during the LX

LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress

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 and LXI Legislatures

LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress

The LXI Legislature of the Congress of Mexico meets from September 1, 2009, to August 31, 2012. Members of the upper house of the Congress were selected in the elections of July 2006 while members of the lower house of the Congress were selected in the elections of July 2009....

(2006–2012).