Miguel Ángel Chico Herrera (born in

Irapuato Irapuato is a Mexican city (and municipality) located at the foot of the Arandas Hill (in Spanish: ''Cerro de Arandas''), in the central region of the state of Guanajuato. It lies between the Silao River and the Guanajuato River, a tributary of t ...

Guanajuato Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...

on March 17, 1961) is a Mexican

lawyer A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solic ...

and politician affiliated with the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the Nati ...

(PRI). He was President of the party, charge that he held from 2005 to 2009. In March 2006 he became the PRI candidate to the governorship of Guanajuato, for the 2006 Guanajuato elections held on July 2, 2006. Chico has also run to mayor of

Celaya Celaya (; ) is a city and its surrounding municipalities of Mexico, municipality in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, located in the southeast quadrant of the state. It is the third most populous city in the state, with a 2005 census population of 3 ...

, local deputy and federal deputy. He has been director of the newspaper ''El Sol del Bajío'' in his native Guanajuato. He is currently a Local Congressman for the State of Guanajuato and the representative of all Local Congress in Mexico before the America's Parliamentary Confederation (COPA) He resides in Guanajuato, Guanajuato and is married to Maria Eugenia Rodríguez Nieto and has a son, Alfonso and a daughter Eugenia.

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