Luis Felipe Bravo Mena (born September 28, 1952 in León, Guanajuato) is a Mexican politician. He was elected as the 17th president of the National Action Party (PAN) and current Mexican ambassador to the Vatican City.
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Bravo is the son of Luis Felipe Bravo García, a sales agent, and Luz María Mena Montoya. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Guanajuato and specialized in social and political philosophy at the Pan-American University.
He joined the conservative National Action Party in 1969 and served in the Chamber of Deputies (1991 – 1994) and in the Senate (1994 – 2000). From 1999 to 2005 he chaired the PAN and served as vice president of Centrist Democrat International, an association of political parties and groups adhering to the Christian Democracy ideology. [1]
Bravo is married to María Teresita del Niño Jesús Tinoco Aldana and has four children: Luis Felipe, María Teresa, Mariano and Florentina.
On March 26, 2011 Bravo Mena became a contender for the PAN nomination to the government of the State of Mexico.[1]
References
edit- Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.