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Francisco Javier Ovando Hernandez

Francisco Javier Ovando Hernandez (1947-2 July 1988) was a Mexican PRI politician who served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1 September 1982 to 31 August 1985, succeeding Marco Antonio Aguilar Cortes and preceding Macario Rojas Zaragoza.

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Francisco Javier Ovando Hernandez was born in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico in 1947, and he was initially a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and served in the Chamber of Deputies for Michoacan from 1982 to 1985. However, he later joined the socialist Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction (PFCRN) party and supported Cuauhtemoc Cardenas' 1988 presidential election. He was responsible for the National Electoral Computation during the election, and he grew angry when he caught the IT specialist editing the electoral results to bias them in favor of the PRI; this was done to discourage Cardenas' supporters from voting for a losing party. Ovando publicly accused the PRI of rigging the results, and, before he could watch the analyst edit the election results, the system apparently crashed due to a power outage. On 2 July 1988, he and his secretary Roman Gil Heraldez were assassinated by unidentified gunmen while they were on their way home from their party headquarters as part of the PRI's efforts to cover up their rigging of the election.

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