Alejandro Armenta Mier

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Armenta and the second or maternal family name is Mier.
Alejandro Armenta Mier
Armenta in 2023
Governor of Puebla
Incumbent
Assumed office
14 December 2024
Preceded bySergio Salomón Céspedes
President of the Senate of the Republic
In office
1 September 2022 – 21 August 2023
Preceded byOlga Sánchez Cordero
Succeeded byAna Lilia Rivera
Senator of the Congress of the Union
for Puebla
In office
1 September 2018 – 1 March 2024
Preceded byMaría Izaguirre Francos
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 September 2015 – 31 August 2018
ConstituencyPuebla's 7th district [es]
Personal details
Born (1969-07-09) 9 July 1969 (age 55)
Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, Mexico
Political partyMORENA
OccupationPolitician

Alejandro Armenta Mier (born 9 July 1969)[1][2] is a Mexican politician. He originally belonged to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) but switched his allegiance to the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in 2017.[3] Since 14 December 2024, he is the governor of Puebla.

Career

Armenta Mier was born in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, in 1969.[4]

He 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'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).[3]

In the 2015 mid-term federal election he won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies for the PRI, representing Puebla's 7th district [es] (Tepeaca).[1][3] On 28 April 2017, however, he resigned from the PRI's benches and, after 20 June 2017, sat with the National Regeneration Movement.[4]

He was elected as a senator from the state of Puebla for Morena in the 2018 general election and served as the president of the Senate in 2022–2023.[5][6]

Armenta Mier resigned his Senate seat on 1 March 2024[5] and ran for governor of Puebla in the 2 June 2024 election as the candidate of the Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition.[3] He won the election with over 59% of the vote[7] and was sworn in on 14 December 2024.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Dip. Alejandro Armenta Mier". Currícula LXIII. Cámara de Diputados.
  2. ^ "Senate of Mexico". Parline: the IPU's Open Data Platform.
  3. ^ a b c d Jiménez, César (21 May 2024). "Quién es Alejandro Armenta, el expriista que ahora es candidato a la gubernatura de Puebla por Morena". Infobae. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Perfil: Dip. Alejandro Armenta Mier, LXIII Legislatura". Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL). SEGOB. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Senator Alejandro Armenta Mier".
  6. ^ "Monreal se impone y Armenta preside el Senado". El Universal.
  7. ^ Aguilar Esquivel, Israel (4 June 2024). "Elecciones en Puebla: este fue el récord que rompió Alejandro Armenta, el próximo gobernador". Infobae. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  8. ^ Flores, Claudia (14 December 2024). "Alejandro Armenta rinde protesta como gobernador de Puebla". Infobae. Retrieved 14 December 2024.


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