Rosario Robles
| Rosario Robles | |
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| Secretary of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development | |
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Assumed office August 27, 2015 |
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| President | Enrique Peña Nieto |
| Preceded by | Jesús Murillo Karam |
| Secretary of Social Development | |
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In office December 1, 2012 – August 27, 2015 |
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| President | Enrique Peña Nieto |
| Preceded by | Heriberto Félix Guerra |
| Succeeded by | José Antonio Meade Kuribreña |
| 2nd Head of Government of the Federal District | |
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In office 1999 – December 4, 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas |
| Succeeded by | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1956 (age 60–61) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Political party | Party of the Democratic Revolution |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Occupation | Economist, politician |
Rosario Robles Berlanga (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈsaɾjo ˈroβles]; born 1956) is a Mexican politician who serves as the Secretary of Social Development in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto. She also was substitute Head of Government of the Federal District ("Mayor of Mexico City") when Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigned from the post to run for the Mexican presidential election, in 2000. She was the first female Mayor of Mexico City.
Her term in office was highly controversial for an intensive media campaign in her government promoting her personal image, the high cost of which raised corruption concerns, and for introducing her political allies to entrepreneur Carlos Ahumada, who videotaped himself giving large cash quantities to the former politician Rene Bejarano in order to fund political campaigns for the next PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The scandals this caused created a major crisis for her party, the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD). As a result, she subsequently resigned from the party. Carlos Ahumada was imprisoned, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won the elections for Mexico city, and Rene Bejarano is still free and active in politics via his wife Dolores Padierna.
Her successor as chief executive of the Federal District was Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the same party but a former PRI member, elected in 2000 with an advantage of less than 5% over the PAN candidate.
In 2005 she announced her intentions to run for the same office, although it is unclear under which party she would run, as her political image was affected by the videoscandals of that year. In the event, the election passed by without her participation.
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