Javier Duarte de Ochoa
| Javier Duarte de Ochoa | |
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| Governor of Veracruz | |
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In office 1 December 2010 – 12 October 2016 (resignation) |
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| Preceded by | Fidel Herrera Beltrán |
| Succeeded by | Flavino Ríos Alvarado |
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| Born |
19 September 1973 Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Political party |
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| Spouse(s) | Karime Macías |
| Children | Javier, Carolina y Emilio |
| Alma mater | Universidad Iberoamericana |
| Profession | Politician, Fugitive Criminal |
Javier Duarte de Ochoa (born 19 September 1973) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as Governor of Veracruz from 2010 to 2016. He also served as congressman during the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Veracruz, leaving his seat on 16 February 2010. On 4 July 2010 Duarte de Ochoa won the election for governor, becoming the candidate to receive the most votes in the state's history with 1,392,386 votes according to the final electoral tally. Since October 2016, Duarte has been officially declared a fugitive criminal by Mexican authorities due to corruption during his time as governor of Veracruz.
Shortly after beginning his term as a congressman in 2009, Duarte de Ochoa began to be mentioned as one of the major PRI candidates for Governor of Veracruz in the 2010 elections. His candidacy received support from the Confederación Nacional Campesina and the Confederación de Trabajadores de México, and he was designated PRI candidate for the governorship on 27 March 2010.
The governor's race for the 2010 State Elections of Veracruz was between Javier Duarte de Ochoa of the PRI, Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares of the PAN and the incumbent Dante Delgado Rannauro, who had been elected by a coalition between the PRD, PT and Convergence. When voting closed on 2 July 2010 Duarte de Ochoa was originally declared winner with 50% of the votes, with only 36% for the closest contender Dante Delgado Rannauro. However, accusations of suspicious votes and rampant fraud led the opposition parties to file a formal request for an investigation and vote-by-vote recount, which was accepted by the PRI on 8 July 2010. Duarte de Ochoa had received a record number of votes, with over 79,000 more than the incumbent Dante Delgado Rannauro had received in the previous election, and telephone recordings were revealed in which former PRI governor and Duarte de Ochoa supporter Fidel Herrera Beltrán was heard pledging to use state resources to support the Duarte de Ochoa campaign. However, although the Election Tribunal annulled 260 voting boxes, bringing the margin of the win to just 2%, they claimed that the opposition had not presented sufficient proof to annul the election, and Duarte de Ochoa was declared the victor on 26 July 2010.
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