Antonio Echevarría García is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as

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from 2017 to 2021, and is affiliated with the National Action Party.

Life

Echevarría García, an accountant and alumnus of the

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, has been involved in business since the age of 17. He became the director general of Grupo Álica, a diversified conglomerate with holdings in media, real estate, soft drinks and car dealerships, in 2013. In 2017, Echevarría announced he would run for governor, following the footsteps of his father, , who governed the state between 1999 and 2005 and was Nayarit's first non-PRI governor, and his mother,

Martha Elena García Gómez Martha Elena García Gómez (born 3 May 1945) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (Mexico), PAN. She currently serves as Senator of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Nayarit. She also served ...

, who is a senator for Nayarit and also ran as the PAN-PRD gubernatorial candidate in 2011. 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. On election day, Echevarría, who had never before held public office, beat PRI candidate

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by more than 11 percentage points, according to early counts; he secured 38 percent of the vote. Antonio Echevarría tested positive for

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on January 30, 2021.

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* 1973 births Living people Governors of Nayarit Mexican people of Basque descent 21st-century Mexican politicians People from Tepic Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara alumni Mexican businesspeople {{Mexico-politician-NationalAction-stub