José Ignacio Peralta Sánchez (born October 1, 1970) is a Mexican politician from 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 ...

who served as the

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until 2021.

Life

Peralta was born in the state capital of

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and earned his bachelor's degree in economics at the

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(ITAM). In 1993, he began working for the

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, and three years later, he began pursuing a master's degree from the

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; from 1998 to 2002, Peralta was a deputy manager in Banxico's department devoted to international exchange and metals and finished his career at the central bank in the national exchange division. Peralta first joined the Colima state government in 2004 as the state Secretary of Economic Development. His five-year tenure in the post was marked by the completion of a natural gas refining and storage facility in Manzanillo. He left the post in 2009 in order to run for the municipal presidency of Colima City, which he won. After initially being considered as a candidate for the

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but passed over in favor of Mely Romero Celis, President-elect

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named Peralta to his transition team in September 2012 as special projects coordinator, and once Peña Nieto was sworn in, he was named Subsecretary of Communications at the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation.

Gubernatorial campaigns

In 2015, Peralta ran to become the next governor of Colima in a tight contest against Senator Jorge Luis Preciado, the candidate of the National Action Party. Peralta was supported by a coalition of the PRI,

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, Nueva Alianza and Labor Party. By a 503-vote margin, Peralta beat Preciado. However, the PAN presented a legal case before the TEPJF, Mexico's highest electoral court, claiming that officials from the state Secretariat of Social Development acted on orders of the outgoing governor,

Mario Anguiano Moreno Mario Anguiano Moreno (born August 15, 1962, in Tinajas (Colima), Tinajas, Colima) is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI who served as the Governor of Colima from 2009 to 2015. He also previously served ...

, to assist Peralta's campaign. The TEPJF annulled the election in late October, ordering new elections as soon as possible and prompting the installation of an interim governor, . In the special election that followed, Peralta won again with 43 percent of the vote., and after the TEPJF declared the election valid, Peralta was sworn in the next day.

References

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