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Antonio Echevarría García

Mexican businessman and politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Antonio Echevarría García
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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.

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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 [es], 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]

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