Roberto Madrazo

Roberto Madrazo Pintado ( born July 30, 1952 in Villahermosa ) is a lawyer and Mexican politician of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI ).

Madrazo Pintado studied law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the University of California. From 1995 to 2000 he was governor of the state of Tabasco.

After Arturo Montiel Rojas, the actual presidential candidate of the PRI since August 2005, it resigned his candidacy in October on charges of illegal enrichment, Madrazo Pintado was determined at party elections to succeed him in the bid for the presidency. In the presidential election in 2006, he landed with 22.26 percent of the votes behind that of Felipe Calderon and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in third place.

In autumn 2007, Madrazo was disqualified for sports fraud in the Berlin Marathon and disabled for life, after he had first won the race as the best in his age group. He had taken from 20 to 35 kilometers an abbreviation, which first struck by checking the intermediate times champion of his chips.