Antonio Echevarría García

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.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Echevarría and the second or maternal family name is García.
Antonio Echevarría García
Governor of Nayarit
In office
19 September 2017 – 18 September 2021
Preceded byRoberto Sandoval Castañeda
Succeeded byMiguel Ángel Navarro Quintero
Personal details
Born (1974-04-22) 22 April 1974
Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
Political partyNational Action Party
Alma materAutonomous University of Guadalajara (BBA)

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]

Antonio Echevarría tested positive for COVID-19 on January 30, 2021.[7]

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.
  7. "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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