Antonio Echevarría García

Antonio Echevarría García is a Mexican businessman and politician who is the current Governor of Nayarit.

Antonio Echevarría García
Governor of Nayarit
Assumed office
19 September 2017
Preceded byRoberto Sandoval Castañeda
Personal details
Born (1974-04-22) 22 April 1974
Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
Profession PAN

Life

Echevarría García, an accountant and alumnus of the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara,[1][2] has been involved in business since the age of 17.[3] He became the director general of Grupo Álica, a diversified conglomerate with holdings in media, real estate, soft drinks and car dealerships, in 2013.[1]

In 2017, Echevarría announced he would run for governor, following the footsteps of his father, Antonio Echevarría Domínguez, who governed the state between 1999 and 2005 and was Nayarit's first non-PRI governor,[4] and his mother, Martha Elena García Gómez, who is a senator for Nayarit and also ran as the PAN-PRD gubernatorial candidate in 2011.[5] The candidacy was supported by the Juntos por Ti (Together for You) coalition, comprising the PAN, PRD, Labor Party, and one state party, the Party of the Socialist Revolution.[4]

On election day, Echevarría, who had never before held public office,[1] beat PRI candidate Manuel Cota Jiménez by more than 11 percentage points, according to early counts; he secured 38 percent of the vote.[6]

References
  1. "Entérate: lo que no sabías de los candidatos en Nayarit". El Universal. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  2. Arista, Lidia (26 April 2017). "Tengo las manos limpias: Echevarría". El Economista. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  3. "Candidato(a) a la Gubernatura en Nayarit". Excélsior. 25 April 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  4. "El empresario e hijo de ex Gobernador, Antonio Echevarría, será el candidato del PRD y PAN en Nayarit". Sin Embargo. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  5. Salazar, Paris Alejandro (5 November 2015). "Antonio Echeverría, 'el junior' que quiere gobernar Nayarit". La Silla Rota. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  6. Notimex (5 June 2017). "Antonio Echevarría, del PAN-PRD, sigue al frente en PREP de Nayarit". 24 Horas. Retrieved 7 June 2017.


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