Egidio Torre Cantú (born June 19, 1957 in

Ciudad Victoria Ciudad Victoria () is the seat of the Municipality of Victoria, and the capital of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. It is located in the northeast of Mexico at the foot of the Sierra Madre Oriental. It borders the municipality of Güémez to t ...

Tamaulipas Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...

) is a Mexican 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) who served as governor of

for the term 2011 through 2016.

Personal life

Egidio Torre Cantú was born on June 19, 1957, in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, the eldest child of Egidio Torre López, a medical surgeon and distinguished public servant and PRI activist, and Ana María Cantú Leal. His younger siblings include María Eugenia, María del Consuelo, Rodolfo and Ana. Civil engineer by profession, Egidio holds a bachelor's degree from

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 Mixed-sex education, coeducational private ...

and completed postgraduate studies at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

. Currently, he is the owner of a construction company by the name of Tohesa, based in

. He is married to María del Pilar González García, with whom he had four children; María Angélica, Egidio Fernando, Emiliano and María Fernanda.

Political career

From 1984 to 1987, Egidio served as Public Works Director for

and from 1987 to 1992, he served as Director of Construction for the state government of

. Subsequently, Egidio served in Ciudad Victoria's Board of Aldermen from 1999 to 2000 and was also temporary mayor of

from 2000 to 2001. Before being confirmed as candidate for governor, Egidio was an active political advisor of the PRI's State Committee.

Candidacy for governor of Tamaulipas

On June 30, 2010, he was confirmed as candidate of ''Todos Tamaulipas'', an electoral alliance comprising the

(PRI), the

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(PVEM), and the

New Alliance Party The New Alliance Party (NAP) was an American political party formed in New York City in 1979. Its immediate precursor was an umbrella organization known as the Labor Community Alliance for Change, whose member groups included the Coalition of G ...

(PANAL), in substitution of his late brother, Rodolfo Torre Cantú, assassinated on June 28, 2010.

Governor of Tamaulipas

On July 5, 2010, Mexican media confirmed that Egidio became virtual governor of

after receiving 62.9% of the votes. His closest opponent, José Julián Sacramento of the National Action Party, received 29.5% of the votes."Egidio Torre Cantú arrasa en Tamaulipas por 2 a 1"
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