Pedro Kumamoto

José Pedro Kumamoto Aguilar is a Mexican political activist and politician. In 2015, he became the first independent candidate to win a seat in the Congress of Jalisco. In 2017, he ran as an independent candidate for Senate of the Republic representing Jalisco, but was not elected in the 2018 election.^[1]

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

José Pedro Kumamoto Aguilar
Kumamoto after a debate held by Ocho TV Guadalajara
Member of the Congress of Jalisco from the 10th district
In office 1 November 2015 – 10 October 2017
Preceded by	Luis Guillermo Martínez Mora
Succeeded by	Alejandro Pablo Torres Guízar
Personal details
Born	(1990-01-26) January 26, 1990 (age 35) Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education

Early life and education

Kumamoto's paternal great-grandfather was a Japanese immigrant who settled in Chiapas and married an indigenous Tzotzil woman.^[2] Kumamoto holds a bachelor's degree in Cultural administration from the ITESO.^[3]

Political career

In the 2015 election, he became the first independent elected to the Congress of Jalisco. He ran for Senate in the 2018 general election and received 762,000 votes, but lost the election.^[4]

He founded a new party, Futuro, in 2019. In an interview, he described the party's ideology as being supportive of social democracy, environmentalism, and gender equality.^[5]

In 2020, he unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Zapopan, Jalisco. He later became a city councilor in Zapopan. In 2024, he once again ran for mayor of Zapopan, having sought an alliance with Morena. He received criticism for seeking an alliance with Morena given his past criticism of the party.^[4] He ultimately came in second place in the mayoral election.^[6]