Jesús Alí de la Torre

Jesús Alí de la Torre (born 12 April 1963) is a Mexican politician, formerly of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

From 2000 to 2003, he served as Deputy of the LVIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Tabasco,[1] and he was the mayor of Centro Municipality, containing the state capital of Villahermosa, from January 2010 to December 2011.

[2] Alí mounted two failed bids to become Governor of Tabasco.

In 2012, he ran as the PRI candidate for governor, finishing in second place; it was the first gubernatorial loss for the PRI in Tabasco in the modern era.

He left the PRI in 2016, stating the decision was personal in nature,[3] and ran as an independent candidate in 2018, receiving 1.98 percent of the vote.