Antonio Echevarría García

Antonio Echevarría García is a Mexican businessman and politician who is the current Governor of Nayarit affiliated with the National Action Party PAN logo (Mexico).svg PAN.

Echevarría García, an accountant and alumnus of the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara,[1][2] has been involved in business since the age of 17.[3] He became the director general of Grupo Álica, a diversified conglomerate with holdings in media, real estate, soft drinks and car dealerships, in 2013.[1]

In 2017, Echevarría announced he would run for governor, following the footsteps of his father, Antonio Echevarría Domínguez [es], who governed the state between 1999 and 2005 and was Nayarit’s first non-PRI governor,[4] and his mother, Martha Elena García Gómez, who is a senator for Nayarit and also ran as the PAN-PRD gubernatorial candidate in 2011.[5] The candidacy was supported by the Juntos por Ti (Together for You) coalition, comprising the PAN, PRD, Labor Party, and one state party, the Party of the Socialist Revolution.[4]

On election day, Echevarría, who had never before held public office,[1] beat PRI candidate Manuel Cota Jiménez by more than 11 percentage points, according to early counts; he secured 38 percent of the vote.[6]

Antonio Echevarría tested positive for COVID-19 on January 30, 2021.[7]