Jesús Murillo Karam is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party

Institutional Revolutionary Party

The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexican political party that held power in the country—under a succession of names—for more than 70 years. The PRI is a member of the Socialist International, as is the rival Party of the Democratic Revolution , making Mexico one of the few...

 (PRI). He served as governor of the state of Hidalgo from 1993 to 1998. In 1998 he became Undersecretary of Public Security and then joined the campaign of Francisco Labastida

Francisco Labastida

Francisco Labastida Ochoa is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party , who became the first presidential candidate of his party to lose a presidential election, which he did in the 2000 presidential election to Vicente Fox.He was born to Gloria Ochoa...

 for President of Mexico

President of Mexico

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 in the year 2000.

In 2006 he was elected senator for his state and in February 2007 as secretary general of his party with Beatriz Paredes as president.

* Requested a license to leave his post to serve as secretary general of his party.