Arturo Montiel Rojas (born October 15, 1943) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
He received bachelor's degrees in public administration and accountancy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1970.
At the state level he was secretary of economic development and presided twice over the local branch of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
However, in a press conference held on October 20, he announced that he would no longer seek his party's nomination because of accusations leveled against his family in the media, including his ownership of several luxury apartments and mansions in Mexico and France.
[1] Among other businesses he granted construction of more than 5,000 homes in an ecologically preserved community in the municipality of Atizapán de Zaragoza, the Zona Esmeralda.