- Fernando Elizondo Barragán
name= Fernando Elizondo Barragán
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office=Governor of Nuevo León (Interim)
term_start=January 13 ,2003
term_end=October 3 ,2003
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predecessor=Fernando Canales Clariond
successor= José Natividad González Parás
birth_date= Birth date and age|1949|1|6|mf=y
birth_place=Monterrey ,Nuevo León
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spouse= Verónica Ortiz Salinas
profession=Lawyer
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footnotes=Fernando Elizondo Barragán is a Mexican Senator affiliated to the National Action Party. He was the interim
governor of Nuevo León (2003) and former Secretary of Energy in the cabinet of PresidentVicente Fox .Fernando Elizondo was born inMonterrey ,Nuevo León , into an upper-class family formed by a prominent local politician,Eduardo Elizondo Lozano , and Laura Barragán, a moneyed heiress. He completed most of his basic studies in Catholic institutions and graduated with honors from theAutonomous University of Nuevo León with a degree in law. In 1971 he received anMBA from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies.He started as a lawyer in a well-known law firm founded by his father and in 1980 took over the legal department of "Hojalata y Lámina, S.A." (HYLSA), a renowned corporation in the metal industry. Later on he presided over several business chambers, including the local chapter of the National Chamber of Commerce (CANACO) until 1995, when he led the financial restructuration of "Grupo Salinas y Rocha", a national chain of furniture and
department store s. He left the company in August 1997.tate politics
In October 1997 Fernando Canales, a conservative businessman, was sworn as the first National Action Party (PAN) governor in the history of Nuevo León and Elizondo was invited to the cabinet. He served as the State Secretary of Finance and General Treasurer from 1997 until March 2002, when he left the post to compete for the PAN candidacy to the state governorship, which he lost against
Mauricio Fernández Garza , a wealthy cultural promoter and former senator.In January 2003 Canales resigned as governor to assume the Secretariat of Economy in the cabinet of Vicente Fox. A few days later, the
Congress of Nuevo León appointed Elizondo Barragán as an interim. His administration greatly improved the public perception of the conservative government but not enough to reverse the voters animosity towards his party, a tendency largely inherited from the Canales administration. OnJanuary 2 ,2003 Natividad González Parás , a leading opponent to his predecessor during the 1997 elections regained the governorship for theInstitutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).Federal politics
After leaving the governorship, Elizondo served briefly as a presidential liaison in several national tax conventions. On
June 1 ,2004 he was appointed Secretary of Energy by President Fox substitutingFelipe Calderón , who resigned to compete for the PAN presidential candidacy in the 2006 Mexican Federal Election. As a Federal secretary, Elizondo faced a fierce opposition by thetrade union s and the opposition parties in Congress to a constitutional amendment that would allow private investment and competition in the nationaloil andelectricity markets.He was elected Senator of the Republic in the 2006 Mexican Federal Election.
External links
*es icon [http://www.sener.gob.mx/wb2/Sener/Sene_1125_secretario_de_energi Secretariat of Energy:Fernando Elizondo] .
*es icon [http://www.pan.org.mx/?P=22&ArtOrder=ReadArt&Article=29 Profile] at theNational Action Party website.
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