Nationality Mexican Role Mexican Politician Name Javier Jimenez | Political party PRI Occupation Politician | |
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José Javier Villacaña Jiménez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He is the incumbent Mayor of Oaxaca de Juárez. As of 2014 he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Oaxaca as replacement of Jesús Ángel Díaz Ortega.
During his 2013 mayoral campaign, he was involved in a nation-wide controversy by producing a fake professional certificate at the main candidates debate. He publicly claimed to be a lawyer, however no evidence was found of his academic records in any university. In 2015, almost two years later he assumed office as mayor of Oaxaca de Juarez, the Secretary of Education released in its website that Villacaña obtained a Law degree in that same year at a local college named Centro Educativo de Puebla, being at least 50 years old by that time.
