1. Roberto Madrazo Pintado was born on July 30,1952 and is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
19 Facts About Roberto Madrazo
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Roberto Madrazo was the candidate of the alliance between his party and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico in the 2006 Mexican presidential election.
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Roberto Madrazo served as Governor of Tabasco from 1995 to 2000.
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Roberto Madrazo's father was a reformist politician at a time when the PRI was the only viable party.
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Roberto Madrazo studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City and urbanism at the University of California at Los Angeles, and headed the PRI Youth.
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Roberto Madrazo served as governor of Tabasco from 1994 to 2000.
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Roberto Madrazo sought the PRI's presidential candidacy in 2000 but lost to Francisco Labastida, a former governor of Sinaloa and former Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo, whom Roberto Madrazo perceived as having chosen Labastida as his successor in the Mexican political tradition of the dedazo.
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Roberto Madrazo even used a pun on his surname: "Dale un Madrazo al dedazo" as a promise to end the corrupt tradition.
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Roberto Madrazo attracted some followers inside the PRI but the primary, which, in an unprecedented turn of events, was open to registered voters and not just PRI members, favored Labastida.
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Roberto Madrazo accepted the outcome, but his aggressive internal campaign had weakened Labastida's candidacy in the eyes of the electorate, and was seen as a major factor in his defeat by the National Action Party candidate Vicente Fox Quesada.
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Roberto Madrazo is mainly credited for bringing cohesion to a disjointed PRI after it historically lost the 2000 presidential election.
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Roberto Madrazo was able to wrestle control of the PRI by negotiating deals with different power groups within the PRI and by neutralizing political adversaries within the party.
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Roberto Madrazo ran for the presidency of the PRI in 2002, allying himself with Elba Esther Gordillo, the powerful leader of the National Education Workers' Union.
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Roberto Madrazo was accused by political rivals of tax evasion.
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Roberto Madrazo faced a battle against Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the former Head of Government of the Federal District and PRD presidential candidate.
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Gordillo has made it clear that she believes Roberto Madrazo is not a viable candidate for Mexico's presidency.
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The Nueva Alianza candidate, Roberto Campa, spent much of the first presidential debate attacking Madrazo.
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Roberto Madrazo was accused of cheating during the 2007 Berlin Marathon.
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Roberto Madrazo is married to Isabel de la Parra Trillo.