Rolando Zapata Bello | |
Office: | Governor of Yucatán |
Term Start: | 1 October 2012 |
Term End: | 1 October 2018 |
Predecessor: | Ivonne Ortega Pacheco |
Successor: | Mauricio Vila Dosal |
Birth Date: | 11 August 1968 |
Birth Place: | Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Alma Mater: | Autonomous University of Yucatán |
Rolando Rodrigo Zapata Bello (born 11 August 1968) is a Mexican politician and lawyer affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as governor of Yucatán from 2012 to 2018.[1]
He previously served as a federal deputy in the 61st Congress (2009 to 2011) representing Yucatán's fourth district.[2] He resigned his seat on 14 December 2011 to contend for the governorship[3] and was replaced for the remainder of his term by Daniel Jesús Granja Peniche.[4]
Zapata Bello sought election as one of Yucatán's senators in the 2024 Senate election, occupying the first place on the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition's two-name formula.[5] That coalition placed second in the election.[6]