Alejandro Armenta Mier


Alejandro Armenta Mier is a Mexican politician. He originally belonged to the Institutional Revolutionary Party but switched his allegiance to the National Regeneration Movement in 2017. Since 14 December 2024, he is the governor of Puebla.
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Career

Armenta Mier was born in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, in 1969. He served as municipal president of Acatzingo from 1993 to 1995 and as a local deputy in the 55th session of the Congress of Puebla from 2002 to 2005.
Armenta served as the state secretary of social development in the administration of Governor Mario Marín. In 2012 he was appointed the coordinator of Enrique Peña Nieto's presidential campaign in Puebla and, following Peña Nieto's victory in the 2012 general election, he served as the director of the National Population Register.
In the 2015 mid-term federal election he won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies for the PRI, representing Puebla's 7th district. On 28 April 2017, however, he resigned from the PRI's benches and, after 20 June 2017, sat with the National Regeneration Movement.
He was elected as a senator from the state of Puebla for Morena in the 2018 general election and served as the Senate (Mexico)|president] of the Senate in 2022–2023.
Armenta Mier resigned his Senate seat on 1 March 2024 and ran for governor of Puebla in the 2 June 2024 election as the candidate of the Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition. He won the election with over 59% of the vote and was sworn in on 14 December 2024.