Martín Orozco Sandoval (born 25 June 1967) is a

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politician affiliated with the PAN, who served as the

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from 2016 to 2022. From 2012 to 2016, he represented Aguascalientes in the

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during the LXII and LXIII Legislatures. He also was the Municipal President of

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from 2005 to 2007.

Life

Orozco Sandoval worked as a private accountant from 1983 to 1995 and obtained his degree in accounting from the

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, Bonaterra campus, in 1996. He began his career in the PAN not long after. From 1999 to 2001, he was the secretary of social development for the city of Aguascalientes, and in 2001, he left that post to become a state deputy to the LVII Legislature of Aguascalientes. There, he was the leader of the PAN parliamentary group. Profile at the Legislature Information System
/ref> In 2005, he ran successfully for municipal president of Aguascalientes and served two years; at the same time, he served as president of the Association of Municipalities of Mexico. In 2010, he made an unsuccessful run for governor, and two years later, he was elected to the Senate for the LXII and LXIII Legislatures. In the Senate, he presided over the Federalism Commission and served on four others, including Foreign Relations/Non-Governmental Organizations, Commerce and Industrial Promotion, and Finance and Public Credit. On February 4, 2016, Orozco left the Senate in order to pursue another bid for Governor of Aguascalientes. In a close election, Orozco Sandoval and the PAN defeated the PRI candidate,

Lorena Martínez Rodríguez Lorena Martínez Rodríguez (born 2 September 1964) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She has served as Deputy of the LVIII and LX Legislatures of the Mexican Congress representing Aguascalientes. See also * Li ...

, by just two percentage points.El País - Mexico election results
accessed 9 June 2016

References

1967 births Living people Politicians from Jalisco Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) National Action Party (Mexico) politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians Governors of Aguascalientes Municipal presidents of Aguascalientes Members of the Congress of Aguascalientes Panamerican University alumni {{Mexico-senator-NationalAction-stub