Creel declares candidacy.Interior Secretary Santiago Creel Santiago Creel Miranda (b. December 11 1954 in Mexico city) is a Mexican politician. He is a member of the conservative National Action Party (PAN). He earned a Law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). stepped down from his post in a bid to win the presidential nomination of the National Action Party (PAN) ahead of the 2006 election. Creel is widely seen as President Fox's favorite to represent the conservative PAN, The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. reported. Recent polls show Creel as the PAN favorite but trailing other contenders, including Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Institutional Revolutionary Party leader Roberto Madrazo Roberto Madrazo Pintado (born July 30, 1952) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was the candidate of the alliance between his party and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) in the 2006 Mexican presidential election. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Creel--a soft-spoken lawyer--was the first interior secretary to face opposition majorities in both houses of Congress and he failed to win support among legislators for most of Fox's reform measures. In his resignation speech, Creel pledged to fight poverty and create more jobs, while battling street crime. Other members of the PAN in the nomination battle are former Energy Secretary Felipe Calderon Felipe Calderon is the name of:
Labor Secretary Carlos Abascal--a conservative PAN stalwart--was named to replace Creel as interior secretary. Fox selected Fernando Flores to be interim labor secretary. |
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