Mexican politician
In this
Spanish name
, the first or paternal
surname
is
Yunes
and the second or maternal family name is
Landa
.
Hector Yunes Landa
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In office
7 August 2016 ? 31 August 2018
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Preceded by
| Erika Ayala Rios
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Succeeded by
| Ricardo Ahued
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In office
1 September 2012 ? 2 January 2016
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Preceded by
| Arturo Herviz Reyes
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Succeeded by
| Erika Ayala Rios
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In office
1 September 1985 ? 31 August 1988
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Preceded by
| Salvador Valencia Carmona
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Succeeded by
| Ricardo Olivares Pineda
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Born
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1958-09-27
)
27 September 1958
(age 65)
Soledad de Doblado
,
Veracruz
, Mexico
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Political party
| PRI
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Education
| Universidad Veracruzana
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Occupation
| Senator
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Hector Yunes Landa
(born 27 September 1958) is a
Mexican
politician affiliated with the
PRI
. From 2012 to 2016, he represented
Veracruz
as a senator in the
LXII
and
LXIII Legislatures of the Mexican Congress
. He also served as Deputy from 1985 to 1988 in the
LIII Legislature
.
[1]
Life
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edit
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Yunes graduated from the
Universidad Veracruzana
in 1982 with a degree in law, though his political career had begun as early as 1977, when he joined the PRI.
[1]
In 1979, he founded and presided over the State Executive Committee of FIREV ? the Veracruz Student Independent Defensive Front. He left that position two years later to become the secretary general of the state National Revolutionary Youth Movement; from 1982 to 1989, he was the national secretary general of the Revolutionary Popular Youth organization.
[1]
Simultaneously, between 1985 and 1988, Yunes Landa served as a federal deputy for the first time, in the LIII Legislature; he sat on committees dealing with the Navy, Fishing, Environment, Ecology, Border Matters, Justice, and Information, Administration and Complaints.
[1]
In 1988, Yunes Landa briefly served as an advisor to the
Secretary of Fisheries
, but he then went to study at the
University of Warwick
in England, even presiding over its Association of Foreign Students between 1990 and 1991; he would graduate from that institution with a graduate degree in public administration and political analysis.
[1]
The next year, he attended the National University Law Center in
Washington, D.C.
, picking up a master's degree in international and comparative law; while there, he presided over the graduate school's Association of Foreign Lawyers.
[1]
After three years as a liaison for the National Federation of Organizations and Citizens in the state of
Sinaloa
and a regional coordinator for the national PRI in the same state (1993?96), Yunes Landa went to work for
INFONAVIT
, where he was a regional delegation coordinator and an advisor to the director general between 1996 and 1997.
[1]
The next year, Yunes went to another fund,
FONATUR
(National Fund to Stimulate Tourism), where he was the legal director between 1998 and 2001; he briefly transferred to the National Popular Housing Fund (
FONHAPO
), where he was a legal manager and headed the Institutional Linkage Unit).
[1]
During this time, between 1997 and 2001, Yunes Landa was the secretary of the National Party Registry Commission within the PRI.
[1]
After a brief return to INFONAVIT in 2002 and 2003, Yunes Landa was tapped to become the deputy secretary of government of Veracruz, a position he held for most of the time between 2003 and 2007. The only exception was a brief period in 2004 when he was a private secretary to the governor.
[1]
In 2007, for the first time in nearly 20 years, Yunes Landa returned to a legislature, the LXI Legislature of Veracruz, as a local deputy. He headed the PRI's parliamentary group in the legislature and presided over the Political Coordination Board (JUCOPO).
[1]
Between 2011 and 2012, Yunes Landa served as the president of the PRI in the state of Veracruz.
[1]
In 2012, voters in Veracruz elected Yunes Landa to the Senate for the
LXII
and
LXIII Legislatures of the Mexican Congress
. He was the president of the Civil Protection Committee and sat on those dealing with Federalism, Communications and Transportation, and Energy.
[1]
2016 gubernatorial campaign
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In January 2016, Yunes Landa resigned from the Senate and was replaced by
Erika Ayala Rios
, as he launched a bid for governor of Veracruz. His primary opposition was his first cousin,
Miguel Angel Yunes Linares
, who had previously left the PRI and who ran under a PAN-PRD banner.
[2]
During the election, Yunes Landa "lamented" his familial relationship with Yunes Linares, who he said had "insulted" his family.
[3]
Five parties ultimately backed Yunes Landa's candidacy: the PRI,
PVEM
,
Nueva Alianza
,
PT
and Alternativa Veracruzana, a state party.
[4]
Yunes Landa picked up 30.1 percent of the vote but lost to Yunes Linares, who became the first non-PRI governor of the state in 86 years.
[2]
[5]
References
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