Felipe Calderón
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Felipe de Jesa (born 19 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 56th President of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012.
He was a member of the National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) for thirty years before he resigned from the party in November 2018. Calderón obtained two master's degrees and went on to serve within the PAN before becoming a key opposition group.
In Vicente Fox's cabinet, Calderón served as National President of the party, Federal Deputy, and Secretary of Energy.
He served in the cabinet of the previous government before he resigned to run for the Presidency and secured his party's nomination. He ran as the PAN candidate in the 2006 presidential election.
Calderón took a marginal advantage (less than 1% of the total votes) over PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador after a tense campaign and a tumultuous election process.
Although López Obrador and the PRD opposed the results and called for a complete recount of the results, Calderón's triumph was announced months later by the Federal Electoral Tribunal on September 5, 2006.
Political career
Calderón was president of the PAN's youth movement in his early twenties.
He was a local representative in the Legislative Assembly and, on two different occasions, in the federal Chamber of Deputies. He ran for the governorship of Michoacán in 1995 and served as national president of the PAN from 1996 to 1999. During his tenure, his party maintained control of 14 state capitals, but also faced a reduced presence in the federal Chamber of Deputies.
Soon after Vicente Fox took office as president, Calderón was appointed director of Banobras, a state-owned development bank. He was accused by political opponents of committing abuse, disputing use of certain legal procedures to finance property valued between three and five million Mexican pesos (between US$300,000 and $500,000); however, once political objections arose, he used other means to formalize his transaction.
He joined the presidential cabinet as Secretary of Energy, replacing Ernesto Martens. He left the post in May 2004 in protest of Vicente Fox's criticism of his presidential ambitions while supporting those of Santiago Creel.
Awards
- WEF Global Leadership Statesmanship Award, World Economic Forum, January 2012
- "People Who Mattered", Time, 2010.
- "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010" by New Statesman, September 2010
- "Bravo Business Awards Leader of the Year", Latin Trade, October 2009.
- "Leader of the Year", Latin Business Chronicle, 17 December 2007.
- Honorary Chair of the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate