Ángel Clemente Ávila Romero (born July 26, 1980) is a Mexican politician and political scientist who is the current interim President of the

Party of the Democratic Revolution The Party of the Democratic Revolution (, , PRD) is a state-level social democracy, social democratic political party in Mexico (previously national, until 2024). The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 198 ...

(PRD). From 2008 to 2011 he was Secretary of Youth Affairs of the National Executive Committee, later he was appointed President of the National Council of the

in 2014, a position he left on December 9, 2017 when he was appointed Secretary General of the same party. He was president of the National Executive Committee from October 22 to December 9, 2018, from December 10 a member of the party's Extraordinary National Directorate.

Early years

From a very young age Ávila began his political career as "PRD Brigadista del Sol" in the campaign to the head of government of the Federal District of

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano (; born 1 May 1934) is a Mexicans, Mexican politician and civil engineer. A prominent Social democracy, social-democrat and the son of 51st president of Mexico Lázaro Cárdenas, he is a former List of heads of ...

. Later, he was youth coordinator of the national political group "Causa Ciudadana". He studied a degree in political science at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

, graduating with an honorable mention. During his time at the university, he was a student advisor to his faculty, host of the radio program "Sharing experiences 2000-2003". Subsequently, he entered fully into the political activities of the PRD as National Leader of Left Youth (2008-2011) and later as private secretary of Jesús Zambrano Grijalva, president of the PRD, between 2011 and 2014.

Political career

In 2014, Ávila was appointed president of the National Council of the

. From this position he had to receive and process the resignation of Agustín Basave from the presidency from the PRD CEN on Jan 11 2016. The presidency of the National Council left her on December 9, 2017 to become the general secretary of the CEN of the PRD, during the presidency of Manuel Granados Covarrubias. His work at the head of the party is to co-implement the 2018 electoral process that begins with the start-up of the coalition "Por México al Frente" formed on December 8 (one day before taking possession of the presidency of the PRD). Before the resignation of Manuel Granados Covarrubias on October 22, 2018, Ávila remains as provisional president of the PRD.

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