Eduardo Bailey Elizondo (born 14 October 1961) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...

(PRI) who has served in the

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. In 2000 Bailey was designated

municipal president A ''presidente municipal'' ( English: "municipal president") is the chief of government of municipios in Mexico. This title was also used in the Philippines during the Spanish and American colonial periods; it is comparable to a mayor of the tow ...

(mayor) of the municipality of Escobedo when the municipal president,

Abel Guerra Abel Guerra Garza (born 30 July 1954 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who has served twice as municipal president of Escobedo, Nuevo León (1992–1994 and 1997–2000), a ...

, left that position seeking a seat in Congress. In the 2003 mid-terms he was elected to the

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to represent

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's 3rd district during the 59th session of

. In 2006 he was the PRI candidate for municipal president of San Nicolás for the

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held on 2 July. He lost the election to the National Action Party (PAN) candidate

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. He was re-elected to Congress for Nuevo León's 3rd in the 2009 mid-terms.

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Eduardo Bailey
at Legislative Information System Living people 1961 births Municipal presidents in Nuevo León Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Mexican people of British descent 21st-century Mexican politicians Politicians from Monterrey Autonomous University of Nuevo León alumni {{Mexico-mayor-stub