Óscar Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar | |
Office: | Governor-elect of Chiapas |
Term Start: | 8 December 2024 |
Succeeding: | Rutilio Escandón |
Office2: | President of the Senate |
Term Start2: | 1 September 2020 |
Term End2: | 31 August 2021 |
Predecessor2: | Mónica Fernández Balboa |
Successor2: | Olga Sánchez Cordero |
Office3: | Senator for Chiapas |
Term Start3: | 1 September 2018 |
Predecessor3: | Luis Armando Melgar Bravo |
Birth Date: | 1973 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico |
Occupation: | Senator |
Party: | MORENA |
Óscar Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar (born 13 October 1973) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA). Born in Comitán, Chiapas, he is a law graduate. He is the governor-elect of Chiapas after winning the 2024 election.
Ramírez Aguilar served as the mayor of his hometown of Comitán in 2008 - 2010. In the 2012 general election he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent the 8th district of Chiapas for the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) during the 62nd Congress (31 August 2012 – 16 July 2013).[1] He was subsequently elected to the Senate for Chiapas on the Morena ticket in the 2018 general election.[2]
Ramírez Aguilar ran for the governorship of Chiapas in the 2 June 2024 local election, representing the Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition (comprising Morena, PT, PVEM and the local parties Chiapas Unidos and Mover a Chiapas).[3] He won the election with 79% of the vote, beating Olga Luz Espinosa of the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition into a distant second place.[4]