 Between 1986 and 1989, he represented the ISSSTE in Tepic, and he entered the state government proper in 1989, first as a director of medical services and finally, between 1996 and 1997, as the state secretariat of health.In 1997, Navarro was elected a federal deputy for the first time, beginning a twelve-year uninterrupted run in Congress.In the LVII Legislature, as a federal deputy, he sat on four commissions; additionally, he unsuccessfully ran to be the mayor of Tepic.