Javier May Rodríguez

Javier May Rodríguez is the Sigamos Haciendo Historia en Tabasco (Let's Continue Making History in Tabasco) candidate for the governorship of Tabasco. Born in 1966 in Comalcalco, Tabasco, Javier holds a high school diploma but never pursued higher education. He has extensive experience in political positions of leadership and is a founding member of Morena. Javier was the former head of the Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo (Fonatur) and was responsible for supervising the construction of the Tren Maya.

Rodríguez’s political career began in the 1980s when he met Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and joined the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD). He was also a member of the Movement of Peaceful Civil Resistance Against the High Tariffs of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). In 1990, he became the leader of the Executive Committee of the PRD in Tabasco. In 1994, he served as the logistics manager for López Obrador's campaign for the governorship of Tabasco. Between 1995 and 1999, Rodríguez served as the State and Municipal Directive Committee leader of the PRD in Tabasco. Years later, when López Obrador founded Morena, Rodríguez was appointed as Morena's Executive President in Tabasco.

From 2001 to 2003, Rodríguez served as a local deputy and the President of the Electoral Affairs Commission. From 2007 to 2009 and 2016 to 2017, he was the Municipal President of Comalcalco. In 2018, Rodríguez became a federal senator. A year later, from 2019 to 2020, he became Undersecretary of Planning, Evaluation, and Regional Development of the Ministry of Welfare (Secretaría de Bienestar). During his tenure as Undersecretary, he implemented and directed the Sembrando Vida program, one of AMLO’s staple social programs, to address rural poverty and environmental degradation through agroforestry. From 2020 to 2022, Rodríguez served as Mexico’s Secretary of Welfare.