Education
Leonel Cota studied political sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Leonel Cota studied political sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
He is a former governor of Baja California Sur and former president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (Party of the Democratic Revolution). He was the first non-Institutional Revolutionary Party governor of Baja California Sur. In 1999 he lost the Institutional Revolutionary Party candidacy for governor of Baja California Sur.
He quit the Institutional Revolutionary Party and instead ran for governor representing a coalition of the Party of the Democratic Revolution and the Labor Party (PT).
In 2005 Cota became president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution with over 76% of the vote. He would later shift to Nueva Alianza in a failed bid for the Municipal Presidency of Los Cabos.
He would then revert to Party of the Democratic Revolution, for the 2012 general elections, looking for a Senate seat.
This makes Personal Area Networks the only major Mexican political party to which he has not belonged.
He began his political career as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Institutional Revolutionary Party), which he represented in the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 1996 and as mayor of Louisiana Paz, Baja California Sur, from 1997 to 1999.