Xavier Abreu Sierra
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Xavier Antonio Abreu Sierra (b. February 11, 1950 in Mérida, Yucatán
Mérida, Yucatán
Mérida is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán and the Yucatán Peninsula. It is located in the northwest part of the state, about from the Gulf of Mexico coast...
) is a Mexican
Mexico
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politician affiliated to the National Action Party
National Action Party (Mexico)
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(PAN).
Political career
Abreu has been an active PANNational Action Party (Mexico)
The National Action Party , is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. The party's political platform is generally considered Centre-Right in the Mexican political spectrum. Since 2000, the President of Mexico has been a member of this party; both houses have PAN pluralities, but the...
member since 1981. From 1985 to 1988 he was member of the Chamber of Deputies. From 1998 to 2001 he served as municipal president of Mérida
Municipal president of Mérida, Yucatán
List of recent municipal presidents of Mérida, Yucatán.-See also:*Municipality of Mérida...
. Abreu served in the cabinet of Governor Patricio Patrón Laviada
Patricio Patrón Laviada
Patricio José Patrón Laviada is a Mexican politician who served as Governor of Yucatán from 2001 to 2007...
as Secretary of Social Development.
In December 2006, Abreu contested for the PAN nomination for Governor of Yucatán; he won the PAN primaries
Primary election
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defeating Ana Rosa Payán
Ana Rosa Payán
Ana Rosa Payán Cervera is a Mexican right-wing politician from Yucatán who in 2006 served as Director of the Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia in the cabinet of Vicente Fox. In 2007 she ran for Governor of Yucatán as the Labor Party–Convergence candidate.-Personal...
and Luis Correa Mena. In February 2007, the New Alliance
New Alliance Party (Mexico)
The New Alliance Party is one of the newest political parties in Mexico.Its creation was proposed by the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación , the largest trade union in Latin America, led by Elba Esther Gordillo, the controversial former general secretary of the Institutional...
party showed support for Abreu by nominating him as their "common candidate" to the state government. This means that Xavier Abreu was the candidate for both PAN and Nueva Alianza. Abreu lost the election to 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...
candidate Ivonne Ortega.