After a few false starts, the Movimiento Ciudadano (MC)—the leading political party in the state of Jalisco—has finally anointed its candidate to run for the presidency of Mexico, although the choice left some party members somewhat underwhelmed.
The party selected Jorge Alvarez Máynez, 38, the federal legislator who had been hired to coordinate the campaign of MC’s Nuevo Leon Governor Samuel Garcia. Garcia bowed out of the presidential race only days after announcing his intention to run, returning home to resolve a constitutional crisis that blew up threatening MC’s control of the Nuevo Leon statehouse.
Virtually unknown on a national level, Alvarez studied international relations at Guadalajara’s ITESO university, and began his political career in 2004 as a Zacatecas city councilor for the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). After bouncing between various parties and serving in the Zacatecas state legislature, he joined the MC in 2013, serving in the federal Chamber of Deputies from 2015 to 2018, and again from 2021 to 2023.
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