Antonio Echevarría García
Antonio Echevarría García | |
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Governor of Nayarit | |
In office 19 September 2017 – 18 September 2021 | |
Preceded by | Roberto Sandoval Castañeda |
Succeeded by | Miguel Ángel Navarro Quintero |
Personal details | |
Born | Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico | 22 April 1974
Political party | National Action Party |
Alma mater | Autonomous University of Guadalajara (BBA) |
Antonio Echevarría García is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as Governor of Nayarit from 2017 to 2021, and is affiliated with the National Action Party.
Life
[edit]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]
Antonio Echevarría tested positive for COVID-19 on January 30, 2021.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Entérate: lo que no sabías de los candidatos en Nayarit". El Universal. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ Arista, Lidia (26 April 2017). "Tengo las manos limpias: Echevarría". El Economista. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ "Candidato(a) a la Gubernatura en Nayarit". Excélsior. 25 April 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ Salazar, Paris Alejandro (5 November 2015). "Antonio Echeverría, 'el junior' que quiere gobernar Nayarit". La Silla Rota. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ Notimex (5 June 2017). "Antonio Echevarría, del PAN-PRD, sigue al frente en PREP de Nayarit". 24 Horas. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ "Antonio Echevarría, gobernador de Nayarit da positivo a COVID-19". El Informador :: Noticias de Jalisco, México, Deportes & Entretenimiento (in European Spanish). January 30, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
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