Marcelo Ebrard
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Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubon (b. October 10, 1959 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) who served as general secretary of the former Mexican Federal District Department, secretary of public security and secretary of social development of the Mexican capital. He is the current the Head of Government of the Federal District since December 5, 2006. He was the successful candidate of the PRD-led Alliance for the Good of All to serve as Head of Government of the Federal District in the 2006 Federal District election.
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[edit] Personal life and education
Ebrard is the son of architect Marcelo Ebrard Maure and Marcela Casaubon. He received a bachelor's degree in international relations from El Colegio de México and specialized in public administration and planning at the École nationale d'administration of France. He was married to Francesca Ramos Morgan and had two daughters and one son: Francesca, Anne, and Marcelo Ebrard Ramos. Later he got divorced and got married to former soap-opera actress Mariagna Prats.
[edit] Political career
Ebrard became a member of the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) in 1978. After volunteering in the presidential campaigns of 1976 and 1982, serving as an advisor to the general secretary in 1988 and being elected to the Chamber of Deputies, Ebrard Casaubon left the PRI with Manuel Camacho Solís in 1995 to found the now-extinct Party of the Democratic Center (PCD). In 2000 he briefly campaigned for the 2000 Head of Government election for the PCD before stepping down in March 2000 and throwing his support behind Andrés Manuel López Obrador as the candidate of the multi-party Alliance for Mexico City.
Following the election, he joined López Obrador's cabinet as secretary of public security in 2000 and became a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution on September 12, 2004.
On July 8, 2006 French newspaper Le Monde ran an article indicating that Ebrard is the new leader of the Mexican Left. Manuel Camacho Solís, for whom Ebrard is a political protégé, has a reputation for running articles in foreign newspapers to indicate his political intentions. Many have seen this as an attempt to dismiss López Obrador and now rely on Ebrard to win the presidency in the 2012 presidential elections. [1]
[edit] Controversy
The city's chief of police, Marcelo Ebrard, and the Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Ramón Huerta, were both accused of not organizing a timely rescue effort when three undercover federal police officers were lynched by a mob in one of the capital's most impoverished suburbs in Tláhuac. After a thorough investigation, López Obrador gave Ebrard a vote of confidence, despite a request from President Fox that López Obrador relieve him of his duties. Later, using his constitutional powers, Fox fired Ebrard, in what critics believe was a politically motivated move to derail his political future.[1][2] Ramon Huerta was also implicated in the incident. Yet, Fox gave Huerta his full support, and did not remove him from office. For this incident Ebrard is currently under investigation, as are the federal authorities that also failed to act. He was later reinstated as secretary of social development by López Obrador.
[edit] 2006 Head of Government election
He ran as the PRD's candidate for Head of Government in the Federal District election held on July 2, 2006, which he won with 47% of the votes.
[edit] Wedding Registry
One week after the July 2, 2006 elections, Marcelo Ebrard married actress Mariagna Pratts. The media exposed that his wedding registry included such items as an US$8,000 silverware set. El Palacio de Hierro immediately deleted their registry from their website when this was exposed in the media. The couple also had a wedding registry at upscale furnisher Roche Bobois, which included a US$25,500 plasma television screen. [3]
| Preceded by Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez |
Head of Government of the Federal District 2006— present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
[edit] References
[edit] References
- Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano (1992), Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Official site (no longer exist)
- (Spanish) Marcelo Ebrard at esmas.com
- (French) Le Monde Article on Le Monde proclaiming Ebrard as the new leader of the Mexican Left
- Wedding and Divorce Article on El Universal on how Manuel Camacho will dismiss López Obrador in favor of Marcelo Ebrard.
- Article on El Universal on Ebrard's wedding registry
- (Spanish) Recibe el PRD capitalino pruebas de la afiliación de Marcelo Ebrard ("The Federal District PRD chapter received Marcelo Ebrard's proof of membership"), article on La Jornada
