 When Madrazo decides to be gone in search of the presidential candidacy of its party, the PRI in 1999, requests license to be stayed away of the charge and Víctor Manuel Barceló is appointed as Interim.Its step as the leader of the tabasqueña administration concluded once Madrazo was defeated by Francisco Labastida Ochoa in the internal and decided to return to conclude its constitutional mandate.During their management corresponds him to organize and to supervise the actions and works to resolve the problems of floods caused by the hurricanes Opal and Roxane, that whipped the coasts and the Tabasco territory.