Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares

Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares (born December 5, 1952) is a Mexican politician and alleged pedo. He has served three terms in the Chamber of Deputies and was the governor of Veracruz from 2016 to 2018. Most recently he served for the space of a few hours as an alternate senator for the state of Veracruz. He has been a member of both the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), from which he resigned, and the National Action Party (PAN), from which he was expelled.

Biography Early political career in the PRI Yunes graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana with a law degree in 1974; during his studies, he worked as a legal advisor in his hometown of Soledad de Doblado. He worked in the civil service from 1974 to 1975 and then as the president of the state's Fiscal Tribunal between 1977 and 1978.

In 1969, Yunes joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In 1980, he was elected as a deputy for the first time, to the 51st session of the Congress of Veracruz.

In 2010, Yunes resigned from the ISSSTE and made his first run for governor, backed by a coalition of the PAN and Nueva Alianza. In one of the closest gubernatorial elections of the year, Yunes came in second, losing out to Javier Duarte of the PRI by three percentage points.

Yunes Linares returned to the Chamber of Deputies in 2015, for the 63rd Congress when the PAN placed him on their list from the third electoral region. He presided over the Public Security Commission and served on those dealing with Human Rights and Constitutional Points. During the election campaign, Yunes Landa said that he regretted sharing a surname with Yunes Linares and that he had "insulted" the family.

As a result of Veracruz and other states aligning their gubernatorial elections to the presidential calendar, Yunes Linares served a two-year term, and the office went up for election in 2018. One of the unsuccessful contenders in the 2018 gubernatorial election was his son, Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez/

On June 4, 2019, former governor Yunes Linares was accused of embezzling MXN$36 billion (US$1.8 billion), which he claimed was "petty cash".

Senate On 10 September 2024, during the debate on the controversial 2024 judicial reform bill, Yunes Linares was sworn in as an alternate senator for Veracruz after his son, Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez, was granted a temporary leave of absence from his seat on health grounds. Later the same day, however, Yunes Márquez returned to his seat and broke the party whip by voting for the reform package. The following day, the PAN expelled both father and son from the party "for betraying the country with their vote".

Personal life Yunes Linares's family includes other noteworthy politicians in addition to Yunes Landa. He has two sons who have been elected to the Senate: Fernando Yunes Márquez, who also served as mayor of Veracruz, and Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez, two-time mayor of Boca del Río, Veracruz, and 2018 candidate for the governorship.