Alberto Begné Guerra

Alberto Begné Guerra is a Mexican politician. He is the current president of the Social Democratic and Farmer Alternative ( _es. Alternativa Socialdemócrata y Campesina) party.

Begné Guerra holds a master degree in international relations from the Ortega y Gasset Institute. He served as electoral and civic education director in the Mexican Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) from 1996 to 1998.

From 1998 to 2000 he also participated in the first electoral effort of this Social Democratic political group in Social Democracy (Spanish: "Democracia Social") led by Gilberto Rincón Gallardo. After leaving this political group he did political consulting and worked on the political association Iniciativa XXI.

In 2003 he was assigned the executive secretary of the Mexican federal institution for public information (Spanish: "Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Informacion Pública"). He resigned on April 2004. [http://www.ifai.org.mx/textos/gaceta/renunciaabg.pdf]

He was invited to participate in a new Mexican party Social Democratic and Farmer Alternative by Patricia Mercado. He became the president of that party in August 2005.At the same time he has a political consulting business with Homero Cárdenas, former personal assistant to Emilio Gamboa Patrón the current leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the chamber of deputies. He is also politically linked to Manlio Fabio Beltrones from the PRI and Jesús Ortega from the Party of the Democratic Revolution(PRD).

He was married to Mariana Sáenz who later, in 1998, got married to Porfirio Muñoz Ledo. ,

ee also

*Politics of Mexico
*List of political parties in Mexico
*Patricia Mercado

External links

* [http://www.alternativa.org.mx/ Official website] (in Spanish)
* [http://www.alternativadf.org.mx/ Official website in Mexico City] (in Spanish)
* [http://www.patriciamercado.org Patricia Mercado Official website] (in Spanish)
* [http://andreslajous.blogs.com/ Alternativa Joven] (in Spanish)
* [http://www2.eluniversal.com.mx/pls/impreso/noticia_miami.html?id_nota=11223&tabla=miami El Universal: "Two new parties approved by IFE"]
* [http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=350698 El nuevo gesticulador by Jorge Javier Romero] (in Spanish)
* [http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2008/03/05/index.php?section=politica&article=012n1pol La Jornada: Acusan a Ortega de aliarse con Begné para ganar directivas de sus respectivos partidos] (in Spanish)