Vicente Fox Quezada
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Vicente Fox RSerafO |
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| 55th President of Mexico | |
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In office 1 December 2000 – 30 November 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Ernesto Zedillo |
| Succeeded by | Felipe Calderón |
| Governor of Guanajuato | |
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In office 25 September 1995 – 25 September 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Carlos Medina Plascencia |
| Succeeded by | Ramón Martín Huerta |
| Co–President of Centrist Democrat International alongside Pier Ferdinando Casini |
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Vicente Fox Quesada 2 July 1942 Mexico City, Mexico |
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Independent (since 2013) National Action (before 2013) |
| Spouse(s) |
Lilian de la Concha (m. 1969; div. 1990) Marta Sahagún (m. 2001) |
| Alma mater |
Universidad Iberoamericana Harvard Business School |
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Vicente Fox Quesada, RSerafO (American Spanish: [biˈsente ˈfoks keˈsaða]; born July 2, 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician and was the 55th President of Mexico from December 1, 2000 to November 30, 2006.
Fox ran and was elected president on the National Action Party (PAN) ticket, which was an opposition party at the time of his election as president. He is currently the Co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of center-right political parties.
Fox was elected President of Mexico in the 2000 presidential election, a historically significant election since it made him the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1910. Fox was the first presidential candidate in 71 years to defeat, with 42 percent of the vote, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
After serving as president of Mexico for six years, Fox returned to his home state of Guanajuato, where he now resides with his wife and family. Since leaving the presidency, Fox has been involved in public speaking and the development of the Vicente Fox Center of Studies, Library and Museum.
In 2007, Fox was accused of illegally enriching himself after photos of Fox and his wife surfaced in the popular Mexican magazine Quien. The photos appeared to show Fox's ranch as newly renovated. Soon after, columnists and radio hosts began to question how Fox was able to pay for what appeared to be extensive renovations on his house. Fox denounced the allegations as part of a smear campaign against him. He also claimed that he purchased his ranch in 1999, before he was elected president of Mexico. In 2012, the Procuraduría General de la República reopened the investigation, but there has since been no update as to the status of the investigation.
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