18 Facts About Ricardo Anaya

Ricardo Anaya Cortes is a Mexican lawyer and politician, serving as a senator since 2024.

Ricardo Anaya is a member and former president of the centre-right National Action Party.

Ricardo Anaya held the positions of Federal Deputy in the LXII Legislature of the Congress of the Union in Mexico, President of the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico and leader of the Parliamentary Group of the main opposing party in the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico.

Ricardo Anaya held the position of National President of the National Action Party until 9 December 2017, when he resigned to run in the 2018 presidential election for the PAN party in political coalition with the leftist parties Party of the Democratic Revolution and Citizens' Movement.

Ricardo Anaya denied the charge and insisted he had supported privatization of PEMEX out of conviction.

Ricardo Anaya Cortes holds a Bachelor of Law with honors from the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro.

Ricardo Anaya has a master's degree in Tax Law from Universidad del Valle de Mexico, from which he graduated with honors, and a Ph.

Ricardo Anaya has been a permanent lecturer in Constitutional Law and State Theory in the Law School of Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro.

Ricardo Anaya is a member of the National Action Party.

Ricardo Anaya was Private Secretary for the Governor of the State of Queretaro from 2003 to 2009 and he held the position of Human Development Coordinator of the Government of the State of Queretaro from 2008 to 2009.

Ricardo Anaya was a Local Deputy for the LVI Legislature of the State of Queretaro, where he held the position of Coordinator of the National Action Party's Parliamentary Group, which was the largest one.

Ricardo Anaya was President of the State Managing Committee of his party in the State of Queretaro from February 2010 to 31 March 2011, and on 1 April 2011 he was appointed Tourism Planning Undersecretary of the Ministry of Tourism of the Federal Government by the Mexican President, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa.

Ricardo Anaya was elected Federal Deputy under the proportional representation principle for the LXII Legislature, from 2012 to 2015, where he held the position of President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1 September 2013 to 5 March 2014.

In 2017 Ricardo Anaya Cortes met the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the international situation after Donald Trump's election as President of the United States.

Ricardo Anaya was one of the candidates for President of Mexico in the general elections held in 2018.

In polls, Ricardo Anaya scored second behind Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

On July 1,2018, Ricardo Anaya came in second, losing the election to Lopez Obrador in a landslide.

Ricardo Anaya won the state of Guanajuato but lost every other state.