Andrés Rafael Granier Melo
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Andrés Rafael Granier Melo (b. 1948 in Villahermosa, Tabasco) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who in 2006 susccesfully ran for Governor of Tabasco.
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[edit] Political career
From 2000 to 2003 Granier served as municipal president (mayor) of Centro a municipality in Tabasco that has its municipal seat in Villahermosa, the capital city of the state. In 2006 he ran for the governorship of Tabasco; he won the 2006 Tabasco gubernatorial election hence he was elected to serve from 2007 to 2012.
The Coalition for the Good of All and its candidate César Raúl Ojeda himself questioned the results of the election before the Federal Electoral Tribunal, that on December 27, 2006 emitted its resolution, declaring 7 polling stations annuled, but ratifying the triumph of Andrés Granier Melo, and to declare that the Coalition for Good of All failed to show that there were any irregularities.[1]
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When Granier was a boy he suffered an accident that obliged him to use chair wheels during various years; then after several operations he was able to recover his mobility
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| Preceded by Manuel Andrade Díaz |
Governor of Tabasco 2007-present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
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