Jesús Alí de la Torre | |
Birth Date: | 1963 4, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico |
Occupation: | Politician |
Party: | Independent (formerly PRI) |
Jesús Alí de la Torre (born 12 April 1963) is a Mexican politician, formerly of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2000 to 2003, he served as Deputy of the LVIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Tabasco,[1] and he was the mayor of Centro Municipality, containing the state capital of Villahermosa, from January 2010 to December 2011.[2]
Alí mounted two failed bids to become Governor of Tabasco. In 2012, he ran as the PRI candidate for governor, finishing in second place; it was the first gubernatorial loss for the PRI in Tabasco in the modern era. He left the PRI in 2016, stating the decision was personal in nature,[3] and ran as an independent candidate in 2018, receiving 1.98 percent of the vote.[4]