Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
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) is a Mexican
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politician. He is one of the founders of the Party of the Democratic Revolution
Party of the Democratic Revolution
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(PRD).
Muñoz Ledo studied law
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at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
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(UNAM) from 1951 to 1955 and later pursued graduate studies at the University of Paris
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.
He served as a member of the cabinets of presidents Luis Echeverría
Luis Echeverría
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as Secretary of Labor
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(1972–1975); and José López Portillo
José López Portillo
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as Secretary of Education (1976–1977). He was President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
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(PRI) during the presidential campaign of 1975-1976.
Muñoz Ledo was Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations
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(1978–1985), where he presided the UN Security Council, the Group of 77
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and the negotiations of the Global Economic Agreements.
In 1988 he broke with the PRI and won a seat in the Senate running as a candidate for the leftist Frente Democrático Nacional
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(FDN) coalition. The following year (May 5, 1989), Muñoz Ledo, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
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and other leading center-left and leftist politicians formally founded the Party of the Democratic Revolution
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(PRD).
Muñoz Ledo served in the Chamber of Deputies
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from 1997 to 1999. He was the first member of an opposition party to preside Congress in the post-revolutionary period. He ran for the presidency in 2000 as the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution
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candidate but before the elections he gave his support to the National Action Party
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candidate Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox
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who later designated Muñoz Ledo ambassador to the European Union
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(2001–2004).
In 2005 he returned to the PRD to join Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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in his presidential campaign.