Alfonso Petersen Farah (born 2 February 1961) is a Mexican physician and politician who served as municipal president of Guadalajara, Jalisco, from 2007 to 2009. Petersen studied medicine at the

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and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He served as Jalisco's state health secretary. In July 2006, he was elected municipal president of Guadalajara, representing the National Action Party (PAN), and assumed office on 31 December 2006. In October 2009, during the

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, Petersen resigned from his post as substituted Alfonso Gutiérrez Carranza as Jalisco's secretary of public health. Petersen_Meeting_Women_in_Guadalajara

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Petersen, Alfonso National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni 1961 births Politicians from Guadalajara, Jalisco Living people Municipal presidents of Guadalajara, Jalisco 21st-century Mexican politicians

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