Manuel Bartlett Díaz was Mexican Secretary of the Interior

Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)

The Mexican Secretary of the Interior is the head of the Secretariat of the Interior, concerned with the country's internal affairs, the presentation of the president's bills to Congress, their publication and certain issues of national security. The country's main intelligence agency, CISEN,...

 during the six year term of Miguel de la Madrid

Miguel de la Madrid

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.-Biography:...

, from December 1, 1982 to November 30, 1988. During the first years of the Carlos Salinas

Carlos Salinas

Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Earlier in his career he worked in the Budget Secretariat all the way up to Secretary...

 government he was Secretary of Public Education, position he left after being nominated by the PRI as candidate to Governor of Puebla. His father, Manuel Bartlett Bautista

Manuel Bartlett Bautista

Manuel Bartlett Bautista was a Mexican journalist, lawyer, judge, and politician who served as Governor of the State of Tabasco for two years, before being pressured to resign....

, was governor of Tabasco

Tabasco

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. In 1999, he participated in the PRI's internal race for a presidential candidadate. This position, nevertheless, was won by Francisco Labastida, who represented Institutional Revolutionary Party

Institutional Revolutionary Party

The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexican political party that held power in the country—under a succession of names—for more than 70 years. The PRI is a member of the Socialist International, as is the rival Party of the Democratic Revolution , making Mexico one of the few...

 in the electoral race for July 2, 2000.

Elected Senator for a 2000 - 2006 term he became one of the most iron defenders of the state property on the power resources. On May 27, 2006, Manuel Bartlett declared that in view of the low possibility of PRI candidate to the Presidency, Roberto Madrazo

Roberto Madrazo

Roberto Madrazo Pintado is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party . He was the candidate of the alliance between his party and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico in the 2006 Mexican presidential election.Madrazo was born in Villahermosa, Tabasco to Carlos A....

 winning and he would vote for Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Andrés Manuel López Obrador , also known as AMLO or El Peje, is a Mexican politician who held the position of Head of Government of the Federal District from 2000 to 2005, before resigning in July 2005 to contend the 2006 presidential election, representing the unsuccessful Coalition for the Good...

 to avoid a right-wing victory. Madrazo and the PRI's national leader Mariano Palacios have condemned these declarations and announced the possible expulsion of Bartlett from the party, to which he responded that in that case he will proceed against both leaders PRI members.