Alma Carolina Viggiano Austria (born 6 July 1968) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In 2024 she was elected to represent her home state of Hidalgo in the Senate for the 2024âÂÂ2030 term.
Viggiano was born in Tepehuacán de Guerrero, Hidalgo, in 1968 and holds a degree in law from the Autonomous University of Hidalgo (UAEH). She served as a local deputy in the Congress of Hidalgo from 1996 to 1999.
She has since served as a federal deputy on four occasions: during the 58th Congress (2000âÂÂ2002), for Hidalgo's first district; the 61st Congress (2009âÂÂ2012), for Hidalgo's sixth district; the 63rd Congress (2015âÂÂ2018), again for Hidalgo's first district; and the 65rd Congress (2021âÂÂ2024), as a plurinominal deputy for the fifth region.
In 2022 she contended for the governorship of Hidalgo, representing a coalition between the PRI, PAN and PRD, but lost to Julio Menchaca Salazar of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
Viggiano Austria sought election as one of Hidalgo's senators in the 2024 Senate election, occupying the first place on the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition's two-name formula. The coalition placed second, securing Viggiano the state's third Senate seat for the 2024âÂÂ2030 term.
Viggiano is married to Rubén Moreira Valdez, who served as governor of Coahuila from 2011 to 2017 and was elected to successive terms in the Chamber of Deputies in 2021 and 2024.