Roberto Rafael Campa Cifrián (born 11 January 1957) is a Mexican lawyer and politician who was the New Alliance presidential candidate in the 2006 elections. His slogan was ''Uno de tres'' ("One out of three", referring to his party's request that voters give them one of their three votes, for senators, deputies, or president).

Political career

Campa holds a

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from the

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. As a member of the

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(PRI) he was elected to public office several times and served in the

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government in various positions during the 1980s. From 1991 to 1994 he served in the

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and in 1994 he was elected to serve in the

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. From 1997 to 1999 he served as the head of the '' Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor'' (consumer protection agency). In 2003 he was elected again to the

. During the PRI primaries for the 2006 elections Campa joined the PRI group ''Unidad Democrática'', also known as TUCOM (Spanish acronym for ''Todos Unidos Contra Madrazo'', a reference to party boss and eventual candidate

Roberto Madrazo The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

). He resigned from the PRI in 2005. On 10 January 2018 he was named the

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by President

Enrique Peña Nieto Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ...

References

Presidential run

On January 8, 2006 the New Alliance party elected Campa Cifrián as its presidential candidate for the 2006 election. At the end of the day, he secured around 1% of the total vote.

External links

The Official Campaign websiteProfile as federal deputy
1957 births Living people Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Mexico City Candidates in the 2006 Mexican presidential election Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians New Alliance Party (Mexico) politicians Members of the Congress of Mexico City Mexican Secretaries of Labor Universidad Anáhuac México alumni 20th-century Mexican politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians Politicians from Mexico City {{Mexico-law-bio-stub