Career
In January 1993 he was appointed to the Direction of the Federal Electoral Institute, where he was in charge of the elections of that year. He also served as Deputy during the LVII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Tabasco, where he was Coordinator of the Institutional Revolutionary Party Legislative Group, and between 1998 and 1999 he was President of the Chamber. In 2005 he resigned his affiliation to the Institutional Revolutionary Party and announced his candidature to the Senate now with the Party of the Democratic Revolution. In September 2006 he took office as Senator of the LX and part of the LXI Legislatures of the Mexican Congress.