Emilio Zebadúa

Emilio Zebadúa González (January 13, 1961 - ) is a Mexican politician who served as "Consejero Electoral" of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).

Personal life and Education

Zebadúa studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)) and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Intituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He also holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Harvard.

Political career

In 1996 he was designated "Consejero Electoral" of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) but left that position in 2000 after Governor Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía invited him to became a member of his cabinet in Chiapas. In 2003 Zebadúa was elected to serve in the Chamber of Deputies representing a district in the state of Chiapas.

In 2006 he unsuccessfully tried to obtain the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) candidacy to the Chiapas gubernatorial elections to be held on August 20, 2006. Unable to secure the PRD ticket, he was ultimately selected as the candidate of the New Alliance Party; however, ten days before the election, he called on New Alliance supporters to vote for the PRI-PVEM coalition candidate José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas instead, in a last-ditch attempt to prevent the PRD from winning.