Arturo Núñez Jiménez (born 23 January 1948) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the

Party of the Democratic Revolution The Party of the Democratic Revolution (, , PRD) is a state-level social democracy, social democratic political party in Mexico (previously national, until 2024). The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 198 ...

(PRD) who formerly belonged to with the

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(PRI). He served as governor of Tabasco from 2013 to 2018. In January 1993 he was appointed to the Direction of the

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, where he was in charge of the elections of that year. He also served in the

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during the 57th Congress representing

Tabasco Tabasco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco, is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Tabasco, 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa. It i ...

's 6th district, where he was Coordinator of the PRI Legislative Group, and between 1998 and 1999 he was the President of the Chamber of Deputies. In 2005 he resigned his PRI membership and announced his candidature for the

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now with the PRD. In September 2006 he took office as senator for the 60th and part of the 61st sessions of

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. In December 2011 he won the nomination for the governorship of Tabasco by the Progressive Movement Coalition, composed of the PRD, the

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and the Labor Party. He subsequently won the

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on 1 July 2012 and became the first non-PRI governor of Tabasco in 83 years.

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1948 births Living people Politicians from Villahermosa Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Governors of Tabasco Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni 20th-century Mexican politicians {{Mexico-deputy-InstitutionalRevolutionary-1940s-stub