Carlos Lozano

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Carlos Lozano

Carlos Lozano de la Torre (born February 9, 1950 in the United States ) is a Mexican politician of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and since 2010 governor of the state of Aguascalientes .

biography

After attending school, he studied engineering at the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) and then completed postgraduate studies in Great Britain in the subjects of development planning , industrial development and urban development.

After his return to Mexico he became Minister for Economic Development ( Secretario de Desarrollo Económico ) in the government of the state of Aguascalientes for the first time in 1974 and held this office during the tenure of governors José Refugio Esparza Reyes and Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos until 1986. 1992 he was appointed by Governor Otto Granados Roldán was reappointed Minister of Economic Development of Aguascalientes and served in the state government for another six years until 1998.

He was then appointed Minister of Economic Planning by Governor Ricardo Monreal Ávila in the government of the state of Zacatecas and held this position until 2004.

Subsequently, in 2004 he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for an electoral alliance of the PRI, Partido del Trabajo (PT) and Partido Verde Ecologista de México (PVEM) for the office of Mayor of Aguascalientes , but was defeated by the candidate of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) , Martín Orozco Sandoval. He was then President of the PRI in the state of Aguascalientes from 2005 to 2007.

In 2006 he was elected to the Senate of the Congress of the Union of Mexico and was a member of it until 2010.

Lozano received 49.1 percent of the vote in the gubernatorial elections on July 4, 2010 and this time was just able to prevail over his opponent from the Christian Democratic - conservative PAN, Martín Orozco Sandoval, who received 43.7 percent of the vote.

On December 1, 2010, he officially assumed the office of governor of Aguascalientes, succeeding Luis Armando Reynoso Femat (PAN).

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SURNAME Lozano, Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lozano de la Torre, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH United States