| María Cristina Díaz Salazar | |
| Office1: | Secretary General of the Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| Term Start1: | November 30, 2012 |
| Predecessor1: | Ricardo Aguilar Castillo |
| Office2: | President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| Term Start2: | December 2, 2011 |
| Term End2: | December 8, 2011 |
| Predecessor2: | Humberto Moreira |
| Successor2: | Pedro Joaquín Coldwell |
| Birth Date: | 17 September 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Monterrey, Nuevo León |
| Nationality: | Mexican |
| Occupation: | Politician |
María Cristina Díaz Salazar is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).[1] She is a former municipal president (mayor) of Guadalupe, Nuevo León. Today, she is senator for the state of Nuevo León.
Díaz Salazar studied law at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL). She is an active member of the PRI who has occupied various positions inside her party including president of the PRI in Nuevo León. She has served as advisor for the IMSS, head of the National Institute of Migration in Nuevo León, local deputy in the Congress of Nuevo León, and has served in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico during the LVI and LIX Legislature. In 2006 she was elected to serve as municipal president (mayor) of the municipality of Guadalupe.
She was the secretary general of the PRI, until December 2, 2011. After the resignation of Humberto Moreira as President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, she became the interim president of the party; but when Pedro Joaquín Coldwell took office as president of the party, she became the secretary general of the party again on December 8, 2011.