José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas (born 28 December 1949) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...

(PRI). He was the candidate of the ''Alianza por Chiapas'' (a coalition of the PRI and the PVEM) for

governor of Chiapas The Governor of Chiapas is the chief executive of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The state constitution stipulates a term of 6 years, to which governors can only be elected once. It also specifies the qualifications for becoming governor: a Mexic ...

in the 2006 state election. José Antonio Aguilar was born in

Tapachula Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez, simply known as Tapachula, is a city and municipality located in the far southeast of the state of Chiapas, Mexico, near the Guatemalan border and the Pacific Ocean. Economically, it is one of the most importan ...

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. He graduated from the

Universidad del Valle de México The Universidad del Valle de México (UVM) is a private university founded in 1960 and one of the largest university systems in Mexico. The school enrolls more than 120,000 students, and has approximately 11,900 faculty members and 6,900 staff ...

with a BA in industrial relations, as well as a master's degree in public administration from the same institution. He was the municipal president of Tapachula, a federal deputy in the LVII Legislature, a local deputy in the

Congress of Chiapas The Congress of the State of Chiapas () is the legislative branch of the government of the State of Chiapas. It was constituted for the first time after the state's accession to Mexico on 5 January 1825. The Congress is the governmental deliber ...

and a Senator of the Republic for Chiapas during the LIX Legislature (2000–2006). On 6 April 2006, Aguilar was nominated as his party's gubernatorial candidate in the

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. According to the official figures of the assemblies, held on 20 August, the candidate of the PRD-PT-Convergence coalition, Juan José Sabines Guerrero, obtained 553,270 votes, while Aguilar received achieved 546,988 votes. The difference between the two contenders was barely 6,282 votes (0.57 percent of the votes cast). The Alliance for Chiapas, joined by the PAN and PANAL parties, challenged the count at 580 polling stations. On 27 August 2006, however, the State Electoral Institute declared Sabines Guerrero the winner and he went on to serve a six-year term as governor.

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Official site of José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas
1949 births Living people People from Tapachula Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Deputies of the LVII Legislature of Mexico Municipal presidents in Chiapas Members of the Congress of Chiapas Senators of the LVIII and LIX Legislatures of Mexico Universidad del Valle de México alumni Politicians from Chiapas {{Mexico-mayor-stub

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