Gabino Cué Monteagudo is a Mexican

Mexican people

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 politician

Politician

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. He is current governor of the state of Oaxaca, and the first non-PRI

Institutional Revolutionary Party

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 winning candidate in the state in 80 years. He previously ran for governor in 2004, losing to Ulises Ruiz Ortiz

Ulises Ruiz Ortiz

Ulises Ruiz Ortiz is a Mexican politician and former governor of the State of Oaxaca. He took office in 2004 as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party .- Election Controversy :...

, the PRI-candidate and current outgoing state governor.

Cué has also served as mayor of the state's capital city, Oaxaca de Juárez, and represented the state as a senator in the Mexican Congress

LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress

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See also

• Oaxaca state election, 2004
  Oaxaca state election, 2004
  The Mexican state of Oaxaca held an election on Sunday, 1 August 2004.At stake was the office of the Oaxaca State Governor, the unicameral Oaxaca State Congress, and 570 mayors and municipal councils.-Governor:...
  
  
• Mexican gubernatorial elections, 2010