Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
Porfirio Alejandro Muñoz Ledo y Lazo de la Vega (born July 23, 1933 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician. He is one of the founders of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Porfirio Muñoz Ledo | |
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| President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 1 September 2018 – 5 September 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Edgar Romo García |
| Succeeded by | Laura Rojas Hernández |
| In office 1 September 1997 – 30 September 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Netzahualcóyotl de la Vega |
| Succeeded by | Eduardo Bernal Martínez |
| Secretary of Public Education | |
| In office 1 December 1976 – 9 December 1977 | |
| President | José López Portillo |
| Preceded by | Víctor Bravo Ahuja |
| Succeeded by | Fernando Solana Morales |
| Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare | |
| In office 17 September 1972 – 25 September 1975 | |
| President | Luis Echeverría Álvarez |
| Preceded by | Rafael Hernández Ochoa |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Gálvez Betancourt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 July 1933 Mexico City, D.F., Mexico |
| Political party | Independent (2020-present) |
| Other political affiliations | Institutional Revolutionary (1954–1987) Democratic Revolution (1989–1999) Authentic Mexican Revolution (1999-2000) Independent (200-2006) Labor Party (2006-2018) Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (2018-2020) |
| Parents | Porfirio Muñoz Ledo Castillo Ana Lazo de la Vega Marín |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
Biography
Muñoz Ledo studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1951 to 1955 and later pursued graduate studies at the University of Paris.
He served as a member of the cabinets of presidents Luis Echeverría as Secretary of Labor (1972–1975); and José López Portillo as Secretary of Education (1976–1977). He was President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) during the presidential campaign of 1975-1976.
Muñoz Ledo was Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations (1978–1985), where he presided the UN Security Council, the Group of 77 and the negotiations of the Global Economic Agreements.
In 1988 he broke with the PRI and won a seat in the Senate running as a candidate for the leftist Frente Democrático Nacional (FDN) coalition. The following year (May 5, 1989), Muñoz Ledo, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and other leading center-left and leftist politicians formally founded the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Muñoz Ledo served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1997 to 1999. He was the first member of an opposition party to preside Congress in the post-revolutionary period as President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1997.[1] He ran for the presidency in 2000 as the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution candidate but before the elections he gave his support to the National Action Party candidate Vicente Fox who later designated Muñoz Ledo ambassador to the European Union (2001–2004).
In 2005 he returned to the PRD to join Andrés Manuel López Obrador in his presidential campaign.[2][3]
On August 27, 2018, the parliamentary group of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) proposed him as president of the Chamber of Deputies and therefore of the Congress of the Union for the first year of the LXIV Legislature.[4]
| Preceded by Víctor Bravo Ahuja |
Secretary of Education 1976–1977 |
Succeeded by Fernando Solana |
| Preceded by Jesús Reyes Heroles |
President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party 1975—1976 |
Succeeded by Carlos Sansores Pérez |
| Preceded by Roberto Robles Garnica |
President of the Party of the Democratic Revolution 1993—1996 |
Succeeded by Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
References
- Enciclopedia Política de México 9 Tomo V. (PDF). Senade de la República - Instituto Belisario Domínguez. 2010.
- Mexican Congress Official Site in Spanish
- English translation
- http://www.proceso.com.mx/548579/porfirio-munoz-ledo-sera-quien-coloque-banda-presidencial-a-lopez-obrador accessed 15 April 2019
Further reading
- Camp, Roderic Ai. "Porfirio Muñoz Ledo" in Mexican Political Biographies. Second edition. Tucson: University of Arizona 1982, pp. 211–12. ISBN 0-8165-0743-0
- Gil, Carlos B. ed. Hope and Frustration: Interviews with Leaders of Mexico's Political Opposition, especially Chapter 7, "Porfirio Muñoz Ledo". Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Books 1992. ISBN 0-8420-2396-8