Miguel Alejandro Alonso Reyes (born September 20, 1971) is a Mexican politician member of 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), and former governor of

Zacatecas Zacatecas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Zacatecas, is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 31 states of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Zacatecas, 58 municipalities and its capital city is Zacatecas City, Zacatec ...

Early career

Miguel Alonso Reyes coursed his basic education in the city of

and graduated as a lawyer from the

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. He began his public activities in 1993 serving as deputy secretary to Mexico's ambassador in the United Kingdom, José Juan de Olloqui Labastida. In 1995 he was member of the coordination of advisers to Social Development Secretary Carlos Rojas Gutierrez, and subsequently held advisory positions in the Senate. In 1998, along with

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he renounced his militancy in the PRI and joined the

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(PRD), serving as private secretary to Monreal, the PRD candidate for governor of Zacatecas and later as his private secretary. He held this position from 1998 until 2001, when he resigned to contend for mayor of

, winning the elections and holding office for the 2001-2004 period

Return to PRI and Governor of Zacatecas

In 2004, under Governor

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, he was appointed head of the Zacatecas State Tourism Council and from 2005 on, Secretary of Tourism of the state. He resigned in 2007 to become a candidate and elected member of the State Congress of Zacatecas for the 1st Local Electoral District of Zacatecas for the 2007-2010 period. On February 22, 2009 he renounced PRD militancy and declared himself an independent politician. On June 18 of that same year he returned as member of the PRI and was nominated as candidate for state governor under this party. He was elected governor in the July 5, 2010 elections and took office on September 12 of the same year.

References

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