Arturo Núñez Jiménez

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Núñez and the second or maternal family name is Jiménez.

Arturo Núñez Jiménez (born 23 January 1948) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) who formerly belonged to with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as governor of Tabasco from 2013 to 2018.

Arturo Núñez Jiménez
Governor of Tabasco
In office 1 January 2013 – 31 December 2018
Preceded by	Andrés Granier Melo
Succeeded by	Adán Augusto López Hernández
President of the National Conference of Governors
In office 13 December 2017 – 22 May 2018
Preceded by	Miguel Angel Mancera
Succeeded by	Manuel Velasco Coello
Personal details
Born	(1948-01-23) 23 January 1948 (age 77) Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Political party	PRD (2005–present)
Other political affiliations	PRI (pre-2005)
Spouse	Martha Lilia López Aguilera
Profession	Economist

In January 1993 he was appointed to the Direction of the Federal Electoral Institute, where he was in charge of the elections of that year.^[1]

He also served in the Chamber of Deputies during the 57th Congress representing Tabasco's 6th district, where he was Coordinator of the PRI Legislative Group, and between 1998 and 1999 he was the President of the Chamber of Deputies.^[2][3]

In 2005 he resigned his PRI membership and announced his candidature for the Senate now with the PRD. In September 2006 he took office as senator for the 60th and part of the 61st sessions of Congress.^[4]

In December 2011 he won the nomination for the governorship of Tabasco by the Progressive Movement Coalition, composed of the PRD, the Convergence and the Labor Party. He subsequently won the election on 1 July 2012 and became the first non-PRI governor of Tabasco in 83 years.^[5]