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2006 Mexican Federal District Election
Elections were held in the Federal District of Mexico (Mexico City) were on Sunday, 2 July 2006 to elect the district's Head of Government, all 66 deputies of the Legislative Assembly, and 16 borough mayors. Marcelo Ebrard, a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), won the election for Head of Government. Head of Government election Background In the , PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador narrowly defeated PAN candidate Santiago Creel. López Obrador served as Head of Government until 2005, when he resigned to mount a candidacy for president in 2006. He was replaced by Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez following his resignation. Polling in September 2005 found the PRD to have the support of 53% of voters going into the election, with 16% for the PRI and 14% for PAN. Candidate selection PRD Polling in 2005 found Marcelo Ebrard, who served as the Federal District's secretary of social development under López Obrador, was found to be the most popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelo Ebrard 2010
Marcelo is a given name, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Marcellus. Marcelo may refer to: Given name *Marcelo Costa de Andrade (born 1967), Brazilian serial killer, rapist, and necrophile *Marcelo Arriagada (born 1973), Chilean road cyclist *Marcelo Barovero (born 1984), Argentine football goalkeeper *Marcelo Barticciotto (born 1967), Argentine-born Chilean former footballer and manager *Marcelo Bordon (born 1976), Brazilian footballer *Marcelo Cabo (born 1966), Brazilian football manager *Marcelo Carrusca (born 1983), Argentine-Australian professional footballer *Marcelo Cassaro (born 1970), Brazilian author of comics *Marcelo Chamusca (born 1966), Brazilian professional football manager and former player *Marcelo Chierighini (born 1991), Brazilian competitive swimmer *Marcelo Cirino (born 1992), Brazilian footballer *Marcelo D'Andrea, Argentine film actor * Marcelo Del Debbio (born 1974), Brazilian architect and writer *Marcelo Demoliner (born 1989), Brazilian tennis player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Mexican General Election
General elections were held in Mexico on Sunday, 2 July 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect a new President of Mexico, President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing then President Vicente Fox (ineligible for re-election under the Constitution of Mexico, 1917 Constitution); 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico), Chamber of Deputies (300 by the First-past-the-post voting, first-past-the-post system and 200 by proportional representation) to serve for three-year terms; and 128 members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico), Senate (three per List of states of Mexico, state by limited voting and 32 by proportional representation from List of political parties in Mexico, national party lists) to serve for six-year terms. 2006 Mexican elections, Several local ballots were also held on the same day, including the head and legislature of the 2006 Mexican Federal District election, federal district, governors of Guanajuato, Jalisco and Morelos and local counc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josefina Vázquez Mota
Josefina Eugenia Vázquez Mota ( o̞.se̞'fi.na'βas.ke̞s'mo̞.ta (born 20 January 1961, in Mexico City) is a businessperson and politician who was the presidential candidate of the National Action Party (PAN) for the 2012 elections. Vázquez Mota was trained as an economist and began her working career in family businesses and with various business organizations and conferences, also working as a journalist and writing books. She began her political career with the PAN by becoming involved in Mexico's federal Chamber of Deputies and then in the administrations of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón. She was the PAN's first female candidate for president. Background Vázquez Mota was born in Mexico City on 20 January 1961. Her parents, Arnulfo Vázquez and Josefina Mota, are from the Sierra Norte de Puebla region of Mexico, and she has seven brothers and sisters. She says she is closest to her sister Lupita. When they were children they use to sell chocolate shakes on the stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reforma (newspaper)
''Reforma'' is a Mexican newspaper based in Mexico City. It has 276,700 readers in Mexico City. The paper shares content with other papers in its parent newsgroup Grupo Reforma. ''Reforma'' is named after the Mexico City avenue of the same name, Paseo de la Reforma, which is in turn named after "La Reforma", a series of liberal reforms undertaken by the country in the mid-19th century. The newspaper emphasizes its graphic design, design, variety of columnists, and editorials that denounce Corruption in Mexico , political corruption. The paper features weekly translations from selected articles of local interest from US and other foreign newspapers. These include ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'' and the ''People's Daily''. The Sunday edition of ''Reforma'' formerly included a supplemental magazine titled ''Top Magazzine,'' which covered celebrity gossip, Hollywood previews and interviews. History ''Reforma'' was launched in Mexico City in November 1993 by Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the National Action Party (Mexico), National Action Party (PAN) ticket in the 2000 Mexican general election, 2000 election. He became the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929, and the first elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1911. Fox won the election with 43 percent of the vote. Considered a social-welfare promoter, along with Julio Frenk Mora formulated, signed and implemented the Seguro Popular who helped circa 55 million independent workers. As president, Fox continued the neoliberal economic policies his predecessors from the PRI had adopted since the 1980s. The first half of his administration saw a further shift of the federal government to the right, strong relations w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Sahagún
Marta Sahagún (; born Marta María Sahagún Jiménez (10 April 1953) served as the First Lady of Mexico from 2 July 2001, when she married President Vicente Fox, until he left office on 30 November 2006. Her tenure was marked by her outspoken views and active role in her husband's administration, in contrast to previous First Ladies of Mexico, as well as several controversies regarding her nonprofit Vamos México foundation and her family's business dealings. Early life and teaching Sahagún was born in Zamora, Michoacán, the second of six children, to Dr. Alberto Sahagún de la Parra, who founded Zamora’s San José Hospital and a nursing school, and Ana Teresa Jiménez Vargas. For some years she worked as an English teacher at the Universidad Lasallista Benavente. Her first marriage was to veterinarian Manuel Bribiesca Godoy, with whom she ran a veterinary wholesale supplies business in Celaya, Guanajuato. They had three children: Manuel, Jorge Alberto and Fernando. They s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convergence (Mexico)
Citizens' Movement (, MC) is a centre-left political party in Mexico. It was founded in 1999 under the name Convergence for Democracy, which was then shortened to Convergence in 2002 and changed to Citizens' Movement in 2011. Established on 1 August 1999, Convergence for Democracy was founded by civil society activists and former Institutional Revolutionary Party members, advocating for a social market economy and democratic reforms to increase citizen participation in governance. Once the drug war started, the party included demilitarization efforts and drug regulation in its platform. Initially aligning with left-wing coalitions since its inception, disagreements with left-wing parties prompted the party's shift to independence in elections from 2012 onwards. However, it briefly joined an alliance during the 2018 election. Since then, it has heavily focused on sustainability and social issues in its party platform. It is the third political force in the country, receiving 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (Mexico)
The Labor Party ( , PT; also known as the Workers Party) is a socialist political party in Mexico. It was founded on 8 December 1990. The party is currently led by Alberto Anaya. Following the 2018 election, the PT became the third-largest political party in the Chamber of Deputies with 61 deputies, after Morena with 191 and the PAN with 81. Political maneuvering briefly established the PRI as the third-largest party in August 2020, although it later turned out that the PT and the PRI were tied with 46 seats each after doubtful PRD deputy defections in favor of the PRI. It received 6.46% of the total votes cast in the 2024 presidential election, becoming the sixth national political force. It has 49 deputies and 6 senators in the LXVI legislature of the Congress of the Union. History Foundation Initial History Following the coordination of several social groups, including the Independent Teachers' Movement, the National Union of Agricultural Workers (UNTA), the Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance For The Welfare Of All
The Coalition for the Good of All () was a Left-wing politics, left-wing coalition created by the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Convergence (Mexico), Convergence and the Labor Party (Mexico), Labor Party (PT) to support Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a candidate for the president of Mexico, presidency of Mexico in the 2006 Mexican general election, general election of 2006. The coalition also presented joint candidates for Congress of Mexico, Congressional and local elections. The coalition was approved by the Federal Electoral Institute in December 2005 and on January 4, 2006 the Executive Commission of the alliance was formalized with an estimated budget of 600 million Mexican peso, pesos (roughly US$56 million). History The former Head of Government of the Federal District, mayor of Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was the presidential candidate for the Coalition for the Good of All in the 2006 Mexican general election, 2006 presidential elections. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martí Batres
Martí Batres Guadarrama (born 26 January 1967) is a Mexican politician who is the general director of ISSSTE in the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum. Batres was the substitute head of government of Mexico City following Sheinbaum's departure from the office to run for President of Mexico. He is also the former President of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) and served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the Federal District, as well as the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District. Career He was the President of the Senate in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. Claudia Sheinbaum Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican politician, energy and climate change scientist, and academic who has served as the 66th president of Mexico since 2024. She is the List of elected and appointed female heads of state and ... nominated him as her successor as Mayor of Mexico City following her resignation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Salinas De Gortari
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (; born 3 April 1948) is a Mexicans, Mexican economist, historían and former politician who served as the 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Considered the frontman of Mexican Neoliberalism by formulating, promoting, signing and implementing the North American Free Trade Agreement. Affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), earlier in his career he worked in the Secretariat of Programming and Budget, eventually becoming Secretary. He secured the party's nomination for the 1988 Mexican general election, 1988 general election and was elected amid widespread accusations of electoral fraud. An economist, Salinas de Gortari was the first Mexican president since 1946 who was not a Law degree, law graduate. His presidency was characterized by the entrenchment of the Neoliberalism, neoliberal, Free market, free trade economic policies initiated by his predecessor Miguel de la Madrid in observance of the Washington Consensus, mass pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Center Party Of Mexico
The Party of the Democratic Center () was a political party in Mexico between 1999 and 2000. The PCD defined itself as a centrist party and was founded by Manuel Camacho Solís, who was its only leader and presidential candidate in the 2000 Mexican general election; the party never managed to have a true political presence. History Dissolution In the presidential elections of 2 July 2000, its candidate Manuel Camacho Solís won 0.6% of the popular vote. In the senatorial elections of the same date, the party won 1.4% but no seats in the Senate. Since it did not secure parliamentary representation in 2003 it is not currently a nationally recognized party. During the same time, the elections for Head of Government of the Federal District were held. Marcelo Ebrard had declined to candidate in favor of PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican former politician, politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
