Fernando Elizondo Barragán (6 January 1949,

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) is a Mexican

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, and

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previously affiliated with the National Action Party. He was the interim

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(2003), former

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in the cabinet of President

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, and Nuevo León senator in the LX and LXI legislatures. Fernando Elizondo was born into an upper-class family formed by a prominent local politician, Eduardo Elizondo Lozano, and Laura Barragán. He completed most of his basic studies in

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institutions and graduated with honors from the

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with a degree in law. In 1971 he received an

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from the

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. He started as a lawyer in a well-known law firm founded by his father and in 1980 took over the legal department of ''Hojalata y Lámina, S.A.'' (HYLSA), a renowned corporation in the metal industry. Later on he presided over several business chambers, including the local chapter of the National Chamber of Commerce (CANACO) until 1995, when he led the financial restructuring of ''Grupo Salinas y Rocha'', a national chain of furniture and

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s. He left the company in August 1997.

Political career

In October 1997 Fernando Canales, a conservative businessman, was sworn as the first National Action Party (PAN) governor in the history of Nuevo León and Elizondo was invited to the cabinet. He served as the State Secretary of Finance and General Treasurer from 1997 until March 2002, when he left the post to compete for the PAN candidacy to the state governorship, which he lost against

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, a wealthy cultural promoter and former senator. In January 2003 Canales resigned as governor to assume the Secretariat of Energy in the cabinet of Vicente Fox. A few days later, the

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appointed Elizondo Barragán as an interim. His administration greatly improved the public perception of the conservative government but not enough to reverse the voters animosity towards his party, a tendency largely inherited from the Canales administration. On 2 January 2003

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, a leading opponent to his predecessor during the 1997 elections regained the governorship for the

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(PRI). After leaving the governorship, Elizondo served briefly as a presidential liaison in several national tax conventions. On 1 June 2004 he was appointed Secretary of Energy by President Fox substituting

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, who resigned to compete for the PAN presidential candidacy in the 2006 Mexican Federal Election. As a Federal secretary, Elizondo faced a fierce opposition by the

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s and the opposition parties in

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to a constitutional amendment that would allow private investment and competition in the national

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and

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markets. He was elected Senator of the Republic in the 2006 Mexican Federal Election.

References

External links

Secretariat of Energy:Fernando Elizondo

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