Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez

Alejandro de Jesús Encinas Rodríguez (born 13 May 1954) is a Mexican left-wing politician. He served in the cabinet of Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his tenure as head of government of the Federal District. Encinas succeeded López Obrador as head of government in 2005 after he resigned to run for president, and served until 2006. In 2023, he was appointed by López Obrador to serve as acting secretary of the interior in the federal government. Encinas previously served as a senator from the State of Mexico.

Encinas is currently a member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). He was previously affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM), the Mexican Socialist Party (PMS), and the Mexican Communist Party (PCM).

Education Alejandro Encinas was born in Mexico City on 13 May 1954. He has a degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). After López Obrador resigned to run for president in 2006, Encinas became head of government, serving from 1 August 2005 to 4 December 2006.

Encinas provided official support for López Obrador's unsuccessful presidential campaign in the 2006 general election, and later supported the blockade of avenues in Mexico City.

He ran for the governorship of the State of Mexico in 2011 but lost to Eruviel Ávila Villegas of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He later represented the State of Mexico in the Senate from 2012 to 2018. He was appointed acting secretary of the interior on 16 June 2023 by President López Obrador. He was succeeded in the position on 19 June 2023 by Luisa María Alcalde Luján.

In December 2025 he took office as Mexico's permanent representative to the Organization of American States (OAS).