Guadalajara, Mexico, Jun 19 (EFE).- The former chairman of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in the western state of Jalisco was fatally shot here Friday, the state Attorney General's Office said.
Javier Galvan, who held an administrative position with the federal public employees health insurance system, was driving in Guadalajara, the state capital, when assailants traveling in an SUV blocked his path and started shooting.
The attack happened near Casa Jalisco, the official residence of the state governor.
Because Galvan was a federal official, the federal Attorney General's Office will run the investigation, the state government chief of staff, Roberto Lopez, told reporters.
The long-time PRI stalwart's resume included service in the Jalisco legislature and Mexican Congress and stints as mayor of Autlan de Navarro and a city councilman in Guadalajara.
Galvan's death brings to 103 the number of municipal, state and federal officeholders murdered in Jalisco over the past two years.
Thousands of federal police and troops have been deployed in the state since May 1 as part of an offensive against the Jalisco Nueva Generacion drug cartel.
The operation was launched after cartel members downed an army helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade.
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