Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano Lázaro ( 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 the former president Lázaro Cárdenas del Río and Amalia Solórzano. Together with the late politician Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, he visited the kindergarten " Brigida Alfaro ". After attending various schools throughout Mexico, he later studied civil engineering at the Escuela Nacional de Ingeniería of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM) to 1957 and formed afterwards in France and Italy continue.

As a member of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI ), he was from 1974 to 1980 and senator in connection to 1986 governor of Michoacán. Because of dissatisfaction with the neo-liberal policies of the PRI candidate Carlos Salinas de Gortari he and other PRI members founded the so-called grouping Corriente Democrática (German Democratic flow ) within the party, whose president he became. After it came together with other left-wing parties establishing the electoral alliance Frente Democrático Nacional ( FDN ), he ran for the FDN in the 1988 presidential election was the first serious opponent for PRI since 1929. Since 59 years for the first time the victory of the PRI in the presidential election was disputed. On July 6, 1988, on the day of elections, it came to probably caused by an accident to the failure of IBM-AS/400-Regierungsserversystems, which was intended for the counting of votes. From the government side of this incident has been declared as se cayo el sistema ( system crash). After the system was restored, Carlos Salinas was named as the official election winner. The term "se cayo el sistema " became the euphemism for electoral fraud. On May 5 In 1989, Cárdenas and other leftist Partido de la Revolución Democrática the whose chairman in turn. In the presidential elections of 1994 he ran again as a candidate of the PRD and the PRI, after that won the election and of the Partido Acción Nacional ( PAN) with 17% of third parties. In 1997 he ran for the newly created post of government ( Jefe de Gobierno ) of the Federal District and won the election on 6 July with 47.7 %. In 1999, he sat down to rest. He was succeeded by Rosario Robles, who took 2000 as a presidential candidate. Cárdenas as official oldest member of PRD is now considered the " moral leader".