Primo Dothé Mata (born August 5, 1968) is a Mexican politician who was previously affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party. From September 2018 to April 2021, he was Senator of the Republic representing the state of San Luis Potosí in the LXIV Legislature of the Congress of the Union.[1]
Primo Dothé Mata was born in Tamazunchale, San Luis Potosí state, Mexico, on August 5, 1968. Since 1991 he has been a leader of the "Doctor Salvador Nava Martínez" Citizen Front in the Huasteca Potosina region.[2] [3]
In the 2018 federal elections, he was elected as a senator of the Republic of the first minority representing the state of San Luis Potosí. He assumed office within the LXIV Legislature on September 1, 2018. Within Congress, he is president of the third labor commission and secretary of the commission on metropolitan areas and mobility. He was secretary of the board of directors of the Senate from August 31, 2019, to August 31, 2020.
On April 29, 2021, he requested leave from his position as senator and announced his resignation from the Morena party in protest of the candidacies of the " Together We Make History " coalition in the state of San Luis Potosí for the federal and state elections.[4] Dothé considered that "in many candidacies Morena no longer represents the fourth transformation."[5]