Pablo Emilio Madero Belden (August 3, 1921 – March 16, 2007) was a Mexican politician. He was the 13th president of the National Action Party (PAN, 1984–1987) and former presidential candidate who represented both the PAN and the extinct Mexican Democratic Party (in Spanish: ''Partido Demócrata Mexicano, PDM''). Pablo Emilio Madero Belden was the son of General Emilio Madero González and Mercedes Belden Gutiérrez. He graduated as a chemical engineer from the

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in 1945 as a Sugar and Oil specialist. Six years earlier, in 1939, he had joined the National Action Party (PAN) on December 6, 1939 as a youth group member, an institution he represented twice in the

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and presided both locally and nationally before leaving it in the early 1990s. He was Vice-President of the National Transformation Industry Chamber (CANACINTRA) and President of the Glass Producers Association of Latin America, among other charges. Madero Belden left the PAN in 1991. In

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, he became a presidential candidate of

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but he lost with 97,935 votes or 0.28 percent of the total votes. Madero Belden was married to Norma Morelos Zaragoza Luquin, with whom he had eight children: Norma Alicia, Pablo, Marcela, Leticia, Mercedes, Mónica, Guillermo and Jorge. In 2007 Pablo Emilio Madero died at the age of 85, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.

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* ''Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano'', Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992. 1921 births 2007 deaths Politicians from San Pedro, Coahuila Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Candidates in the 1982 Mexican presidential election Candidates in the 1994 Mexican presidential election Presidents of the National Action Party (Mexico) National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Mexican Democratic Party politicians 20th-century Mexican politicians {{Mexico-deputy-NationalAction-1920s-stub