Gabriel Covarrubias Ibarra | |
Office: | Member of the Senate for Jalisco |
Term Start: | 1 November 1997 |
Term End: | 31 August 2000 |
Office1: | Member of the Congress of Jalisco |
Term Start1: | 15 March 1995 |
Term End1: | 1997 |
Office2: | Municipal president of Guadalajara |
Term Start2: | 1 January 1989 |
Term End2: | 30 March 1992 |
Predecessor2: | Eugenio Ruiz Orozco |
Successor2: | Enrique Dau Flores |
Birth Date: | 3 July 1930 |
Birth Place: | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
Death Place: | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
Gabriel Covarrubias Ibarra (3 July 1930 – 2 August 2018) was a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Covarrubias was a public accountant by profession and worked for the state treasury before entering politics. He served as municipal president of Guadalajara from 1989 to 1992. As municipal president, he make his own count of inhabitants after disagreeing with the figures from the INEGI. Covarrubias led the filing of a legal appeal against the electricity tariffs of the CFE. He also received recognition for refusing to grant authorization for a gay pride parade. He also served as president of the board of reconstruction after the explosions of 22 April 1992.[1] He was elected as a member of the LIV Legislature of the Congress of Jalisco.[2]
He was a Senator from 1997 to 2000, serving on a number of commissions including Industrial Development, Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, and Treasury and Credit.[3]
Covarrubias died on 2 August 2018 in Guadalajara.[4]