Alejandro Armenta Mier (born 9 July 1969) is a Mexican politician. He originally belonged to 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) but switched his allegiance to the

National Regeneration Movement The National Regeneration Movement (), commonly referred to by its syllabic abbreviation Morena (), is a major left-wing political party in Mexico, often described as oscillating between social democracy and populism. As of 2023, it is the la ...

(Morena) in 2017. Since 14 December 2024, he is the governor of Puebla.

Career

Armenta Mier was born in

Izúcar de Matamoros Izúcar de Matamoros is a city in Izúcar de Matamoros Municipality located in the southwestern part of the Mexican state of Puebla. The city serves as the municipal seat of the municipality. At the census of 2005 the city had a population of 41, ...

Puebla Puebla, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla, is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its capital is Puebla City. Part of east-centr ...

, in 1969. He served as

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of Acatzingo from 1993 to 1995 and as a local deputy in the 55th session of the Congress of Puebla from 2002 to 2005. Armenta served as the state secretary of social development in the administration of Governor Mario Marín (2005–2011). In 2012 he was appointed the coordinator of

Enrique Peña Nieto Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican former politician and lawyer who was the 64th president of Mexico from 2012 to 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he p ...

's presidential campaign in Puebla and, following Peña Nieto's victory in the 2012 general election, he served as the director of the National Population Register (Renapo). In the 2015 mid-term federal election he won a seat in the

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for the PRI, representing Puebla's 7th district (

Tepeaca Tepeaca is a municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla in southeastern Mexico. Tepeaca is located 35 km (21.75 mi) from the city of Puebla and is the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. Its name comes from a Spanish v ...

). On 28 April 2017, however, he resigned from the PRI's benches and, after 20 June 2017, sat with the National Regeneration Movement. He was elected as a senator from the state of

for Morena in the 2018 general election and served as the

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of the

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in 2022–2023. Armenta Mier resigned his Senate seat on 1 March 2024 and ran for governor of Puebla in the 2 June 2024 election as the candidate of the '' Sigamos Haciendo Historia'' coalition. He won the election with over 59% of the vote and was sworn in on 14 December 2024.

References

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