Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano
Cuauhtémoc Lázaro Cárdenas Solórzano (born May 1, 1934 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican politician. He was governor of the state of Michoacán , head of government of the Distrito Federal de México and founder of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD).
biography
Cárdenas is the son of former President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río and Amalia Solórzano. Together with the later politician Porfirio Muñoz Ledo he attended the kindergarten "Brígida Alfaro". After attending various schools all over Mexico, he later studied civil engineering at the Escuela Nacional de Ingeniería of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) until 1957 and then continued his education in France and Italy.
As a member of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) he was senator from 1974 to 1980 and then governor of Michoacán until 1986. Due to the dissatisfaction with the neoliberal politics of the PRI candidate Carlos Salinas de Gortari , he and other PRI members founded the so-called group Corriente Democrática ( German : Democratic current ) within the party of which he became chairman. After the founding of the electoral alliance Frente Democrático Nacional (FDN) together with other left-wing parties , he ran for the FDN in the 1988 presidential elections as the first serious opponent for PRI since 1929. The PRI's victory in the presidential election was doubted for the first time in 59 years . On July 6, 1988, the day of the elections, it came to failure of the IBM - AS / 400 -Regierungsserversystems that was provided for the counting of votes. The government declared this incident as se cayó el sistema (system crash). After the system was restored, Carlos Salinas was named as the official election winner. The term “se cayó el sistema” developed into a euphemism for electoral fraud . On May 5, 1989, Cárdenas and other left-wing politicians founded the Partido de la Revolución Democrática, which he again chaired. In the presidential elections in 1994 he ran again as a candidate for the PRD and was after the PRI, which won the election and the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) with 17% third. In 1997 he ran for the newly created office of head of government ( Jefe de Gobierno ) of the Federal District and won the election on July 6 with 47.7%. In 1999 he retired. He was succeeded by Rosario Robles , who ran as a presidential candidate in 2000.
In view of the involvement of PRD politicians in the state of Guerrero in the mass kidnapping in Iguala in 2014 and the resulting deep crisis of his party, Cárdenas called on November 17, 2014 in an open letter to the party executive to resign. On November 25, 2014, he resigned from the party he founded.
literature
- Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 03/2001 of January 8, 2001, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Footnotes
- ↑ Carta abierta. A los miembros del Partido de la Revolución Democrática. Al Presidente, Secretario General e integrantes del Comité Ejecutivo Nacional del PRD , accessed February 20, 2015.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cárdenas Solórzano, Cuauhtémoc |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cárdenas Solórzano, Cuauhtémoc Lázaro (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |