Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas (born 31 July 1985) is a Mexican lawyer and politician. He is the mayor of the city of

Monterrey Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anchor ...

and was a legislator in the

Congress of Nuevo León The Congress of the State of Nuevo León is the legislative branch of the government of the Mexican state of Nuevo León. The congress is the governmental deliberative body of Nuevo León, which is equal to, and independent of, the executive (the ...

from 1 September 2018 to 1 February 2021. He is the son of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, the PRI presidential candidate, who was

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at a campaign rally in

Tijuana Tijuana ( ,"Tijuana"
(US) and < ...

during the Mexican presidential campaign of 1994.

Biography

Born in

Magdalena de Kino Magdalena de Kino () is a city, part of the surrounding municipality of the same name, located in the Mexican state of Sonora covering approximately 560 square miles (1,460 square kilometers). According to the 2005 census, the city's population ...

on 31 July 1985, Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas has a younger sister named Mariana Colosio Riojas. In 1994 after his father's assassination in March and his mother's death in November when he was 9 years old and his sister 1 year old. Colosio Riojas and his sister were adopted by their maternal aunt and uncle Hilda Elisa Riojas and Fernando Cantú. He studied

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in the

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and coeducational private university based in ...

and graduated in 2010. He received a postgraduate diploma in Financing and Methods of International Payments, also by ITESM, in 2016. He currently studies a Master's of Legal Studies in Corporate Law in the

Universidad de Monterrey The University of Monterrey ( es, Universidad de Monterrey, acronym "UDEM") is a private Catholic-inspired secondary and higher education institution in the municipality of San Pedro Garza García, belonging to the Metropolitan Area of Monterre ...

Political career

Colosio Riojas became the candidate for the IV District of

Nuevo León Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...

under political party

Movimiento Ciudadano Citizens' Movement ( es, Movimiento Ciudadano) is a political party in Mexico. Dante Delgado Rannauro was its first leader. It was initially known as Convergence for Democracy ( es, Convergencia por la Democracia), but the name was shortened to ...

in the 2018 statewide elections in which he won with 33.41% of the votes. On 1 September 2018, he assumed office as a member of the LXXV Legislature in the

. In January 2021, Colosio Riojas registered as a pre-candidate for mayor of

for the

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under political party

. He won the election in June with over 47% of the vote in an 8-way race, defeating his nearest opponent by more than 16%.

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Biography

Political career

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