Fausto Vallejo
Fausto Vallejo Figueroa is a Mexican lawyer, politician, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and former governor of Michoacán. He has served three times as mayor of Morelia, Michoacán. On June 18, 2014, he announced he was stepping down as governor to take care of his health.
Vallejo ran for the governorship of Michoacán in the November 13, 2011, gubernatorial election. According to the official results he won the election with 35.39% of the votes, Vallejo narrowly defeated PAN gubernatorial candidate Luisa María Calderón, the sister of Mexican President Felipe Calderón, by less than 3% of the vote. Calderón, who led most opinion polls prior to the election, alleged that drug traffickers based in Michoacán had helped tip the election in Fausto Vallejo's favor. A third candidate, Silvano Aureoles of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, placed a distant third with 29%.
In August 2014, his son Rodrigo Vallejo Mora was arrested after a video surfaced of him meeting with Servando Gómez Martínez, fugitive leader of the Knights Templar Cartel, a criminal organization based in Michoacán.
