- Ricardo Monreal
Ricardo Monreal Ávila (b.
September 19 ,1960 inFresnillo ,Zacatecas ) is a Mexican politician affiliated to theParty of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He is a former senator, a formerGovernor of Zacatecas and a former member of theInstitutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) being closely identified during his tenure in that party with former presidentCarlos Salinas de Gortari .Monreal Ávila graduated with a bachelor's degree in law from the
Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ) and with aPh.D. in administrative and constitutional law from theNational Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He worked as a professor of law for several years and got involved in several agricultural programs and farmers' organizations during most of the 1980s.In 1991 he became president of the state chapter of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, a political institution he represented twice at the Chamber of Deputies, once at the local congress and twice at the Senate. In 1998, after failing to become the PRI candidate for governor in Zacatecas, he switched sides and joined the left-of-center Party of the Democratic Revolution, winning the election with 44.6% of the votes.
Monreal left the governorship in September 2004 and briefly considered to compete for the 2006 PRD presidential candidacy. Instead, he joined the presidential campaign of
Andrés Manuel López Obrador , the former Head of Government of the Federal District. In the general election of2 July 2006 , he was elected to the Senate for the PRD as a national-list PR senator.External links
*es icon [http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/biografias/313704.html esmas.com: Ricardo Monreal]
*es icon [http://www.terra.com.mx/especialesnoticias/articulo/138385/ Terra: Ricardo Monreal]
*es icon [http://www.lideresmexicanos.com/articulos.php?id_sec=22&id_art=150&num_page=462 Revista Líderes Mexicanos: Ricardo Monreal]
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