Benjamín Clariond Reyes-Retana is a Mexican politician affiliated with the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...

(PRI) who has served as a federal deputy ( Nuevo León's 1st district),

municipal president A ''presidente municipal'' ( English: "municipal president") is the chief of government of municipios in Mexico. This title was also used in the Philippines during the Spanish and American colonial periods; it is comparable to a mayor of the tow ...

(mayor) of

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and as interim governor of the state of Nuevo León after the resignation of

Sócrates Rizzo Sócrates Cuauhtémoc Rizzo García (born September 14, 1945) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He is a former federal Congressman (1985–1989), mayor of Monterrey (1989–1991) and former gov ...

. In 2006 he ran for

(mayor) of

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but lost against the PAN candidate

Fernando Margáin Fernando Margáin Berlanga (born 1952) is a Mexican politician from the State of Nuevo León affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN) who has served in the upper house of the Mexican Congress. Margáin served as municipal president (ma ...

. Clariond is the grandson of

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immigrant Jacques Antoine Clariond (also known as "Santiago Antonio Clariond") founder of Industrias Monterrey. He has served as general director of IMSATEC.

References

*http://sitl.diputados.gob.mx/LXI_leg/curricula.php?dipt=365 (in Spanish) Living people Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Politicians from Monterrey Municipal presidents of Monterrey Governors of Nuevo León Mexican people of French descent 21st-century Mexican politicians Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Mexican politicians {{Mexico-mayor-stub