Ricardo Anaya Cortés | |
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president of the National Action Party |
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Assumed office 21 August 2015 |
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Preceded by | Gustavo Madero Muñoz |
President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 1 December 2013 – 6 March 2014 |
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Preceded by | Francisco Arroyo Vieyra |
Succeeded by | José González Morfin |
Personal details | |
Born |
Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico |
25 February 1979
Political party | National Action Party |
Alma mater |
Autonomous University of Queretaro Universidad del Valle de México |
Ricardo Anaya Cortés (born February 25, 1979) is a Mexican lawyer and politician, member and president of the National Action Party. He held the positions of Federal Deputy in the LXII Legislature of the Congress of the Union in Mexico, President of the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico and leader of the Parliamentary Group of the main opposing party in the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico. Currently, he holds the position of National President of the National Action Party.
He currently serves as National President of the National Action Party.
Ricardo Anaya Cortés is a Bachelor of Law, graduated with honors at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. He has a Master’s Degree in Fiscal Law from Universidad del Valle de México, where he graduated with honors and a Ph.D. in Political Science and Social Studies, from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where he graduated with honors. He has been a permanent lecturer in Constitutional Law and State Theory in the Law School of Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.
Ricardo Anaya is a member of the National Action Party. In 2000, when he was 21 years old, he was PAN’s candidate for Local Deputy in the XIV District of Querétaro, which comprised Arroyo Seco and Pinal de Amoles municipalities, and he achieved an increase of more than 400% in votes for his party in relation with the previous election. He was Private Secretary for the Governor of the State of Querétaro from 2003 to 2009 and he held the position of Human Development Coordinator of the Government of the State of Querétaro from 2008 to 2009. He was a Local Deputy for the LVI Legislature of the State of Querétaro, where he held the position of Coordinator of the National Action Party’s Parliamentary Group, which was the largest one.
He was President of the State Managing Committee of his party in the State of Querétaro from February 2010 to March 31, 2011, and on April 1, 2011 he was appointed Tourism Planning Undersecretary of the Ministry of Tourism of the Federal Government by the Mexican President, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.
He was elected Federal Deputy under the proportional representation principle for the LXII Legislature, from 2012 to 2015, where he held the position of President of the Chamber of Deputies from September 1, 2013 to March 5, 2014.
On September 30, 2014, Gustavo Madero Muñoz took leave of absence from his position as PAN’s President to lead the list of deputies under proportional representation of his party in the 2015 Election, and therefore, the Permanent Commission of the party appointed Ricardo Anaya Cortés who then held the position of General Secretary of the party, as National President and Fernando Álvarez Monje was appointed as the new General Secretary.