Ricardo Velázquez Meza

In the 2018 federal elections, he was nominated by Morena as a substitute for Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío, candidate for first-party senator for the state of Baja California Sur. After the elections, the Castro-Velázquez formula was chosen to integrate the LXIV Legislature of the Congress of the Union. In December 2018, Castro Cosío requested a leave of absence from the position to be Coordinator of federal government programs in the state of Baja California Sur. Ricardo Velázquez Meza occupied his seat as senator of the republic as of December 6, 2018.^[5]

Within the Senate of Mexico, he is secretary of the board of directors in the third year of sessions, from August 2020 to August 2021. He is also secretary of the commission on the environment, natural resources and climate change.^[1][3]

On 2 March 2021, during a virtual session of the Senate established as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, Senator Ricardo Velázquez Meza projected a photograph of himself to simulate that he was present at the meeting held via Zoom. The fact was reported by journalist Leticia Robles through Twitter: "I thought I had seen wrong, but no. The senator of Morena, Ricardo Velázquez @BcsRicardo has a photo for virtual meetings and today he did not remove it to vote. Could it be that he uses it to pretend that he is paying attention to the electrical debate in @senadomexicano? He already left the photo. Literally: I saw him double".^[6][7]