Murat Hinojosa was born on August 4, 1975, in the
State of Mexico; his father,
José Murat Casab, was also a PRI politician who served as governor of Oaxaca from 1998 to 2004. In 2001, he obtained his law degree from the
ITAM. He later received a master's degree in law from
Columbia University. He served as an alternate deputy to the
LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress for the Federal District, and on October 28, 2004, he took the place of
Jorge Ortiz Alvarado when he asked to resign. In his two years in San Lázaro, he presided over the Special Commission for Competitiveness and Regional Development and also served on the Communications Commission. He served as housing coordinator for
Enrique Peña Nieto's presidential campaign The case was taken to the
Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, which unanimously ruled that Murat was eligible because both of his parents were born in that state, and the state constitution defines any child of a parent from Oaxaca as a citizen of that state. He ran under a PRI-
PVEM-
Nueva Alianza coalition and won on June 5, 2016. Murat was on board the helicopter which
crashed in February 2018 while surveying the damage done by the recent earthquake. 15 people were killed in the crash, but Murat and fellow politician
Alfonso Navarrete Prida escaped with comparatively minor injuries. ==Candidate for Governor of Oaxaca 2016==