José Clemente Castañeda Hoeflich (born 11 March 1972) is a Mexican politician, former national coordinator of the Movimiento Ciudadano party,[1] is the current coordinator of the Movimiento Ciudadano bench in the Senate and senator from Jalisco since 2018.

[2] He was born on March 11, 1972, in Guadalajara, the son of Rosalba Hoeflich and Clemente Castañeda Valencia, a university teacher and founding member of the PRD Jalisco.

[3] He earned his bachelor's degree in political studies and government at the University of Guadalajara in 1995.

From 2007 to 2009 Clemente Castañeda was director of the Technical Body for Metropolitan Affairs of the State of Jalisco in the LVIII Legislature, from 2010 to 2012 he was head of political coordination of the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga in the state of Jalisco, lastly, in 2012 he was general a coordinator of the campaign for governor of Jalisco of Enrique Alfaro Ramírez.

[2] From 2015 to 2018 he was a multi-member federal deputy to the LXIII Legislature; At this stage, he served as coordinator of the Movimiento Ciudadano bench,[8] secretary of the Governance Commission and of the Radio and Television Commission; in addition to being a member of the Commissions of the Administration Committee, and of Follow-up to the Events that Occurred in Nochixtlán, Oaxaca, on June 19, 2016, of follow-up to the local electoral procedures of the year 2016.