According to information provided by the Senior Official Office (Oficina de Oficialía Mayor) of the Congress of the State of Nuevo León during a 15 February 1999 telephone interview, the 67th Legislature of the Congress ended on 14 October 1997, and the 68th legislature was installed on 15 October 1997.

The list of congress members in the 68th Legislature, published in the Internet Website of the Congress of the State of Nuevo Leon, groups them under the political banners of the Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN), Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Partido del Trabajo (PT), Partido de la Revolución Democratica (PRD), and independents:

PAN:

Rolando de Regil Martínez
Cristian Castaño Contreras
Blanca Judith Díaz Delgado
Luis David Ortiz Salinas
Cesáreo Cavazos Cavazos
Eduardo Arias Aparicio
Francisco Fuentes Espinoza
Martin Santos Torres
Guillermo Martínez Garza
Julián Hernández Santillán
Juan Alberto Dueñas Castillo
Arturo Cavazos Leal
Manuel B. Martínez Ramírez
José Alberto López Cruz
Inocencio Cerda Cortés
Jesús Morales García
Adalberto Madero Quiroga
Fanny Arellanes Cervantes
José Luis Castillo Domínguez
Francisco Javier Cantú Torres
Hermenegildo Estrada Rdz.
Miguel A. González Quiroga

PRI:

Manuel José Peña Doria
Tomasa Rivera Juárez
Mario de Jesús Peña Garza
Eliud Tamez Gómez
César Lucio Coronado
Enrique Nuñez Vela
Luis C. Treviño Berchelman
Leopoldo González Gzz.
Arturo de la Garza Tijerina
Jaime Rodríguez Calderón
Ricardo Salinas Cantú
María E. Chapa Hernández
Ovidio A. Rodríguez Suárez
PT:
José Herrera Maldonado
PRD:
Gilberto Garza

Independent:

Jorge H. Padilla Olvera

Please find attached a list of the deputies of the 67th Legislature of the Congress of the State of Nuevo Leon (1994-97), as provided by the Senior Official Office of the Congress (17 Feb. 1999). The document first lists deputies elected by simple majority in each electoral district (distrito), naming also their congressional seat designated substitute (suplente) and the substitute for congressional functions (suplente en funciones), such as participation in congressional committees. The document then lists deputies elected through the system of proportional representation (diputados de representación proporcional).

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

References

Congress of the State of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey. 15 February 1999. Telephone interview with information staff.

_____. February 1999. "Conformación del Congreso del Estado de Nuevo León." [Internet] http://www.congreso-nl.gob.mx/conformacion.html [Accessed 15 Feb. 1999]

Attachment

Oficina de Oficialía Mayor, Honorable Congreso del Estado de Nuevo León, Monterrey. 17 February 1999. "H. Congreso del Estado de Nuevo León; LXVII Legislatura, 1994-1997." Fax received by the Research Directorate.