Gricelda Valencia de la Mora was born in
Colima,
Mexico, in 1973. She studied a degree in pedagogy at the Universidad Multitécnica Profesional Colima. 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. 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. In the elections, held on July 1, her candidacy was elected with nearly 43% of the votes cast in her favor. 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. == Controversies ==