Ethnicity Mexican Role Politician | Name Roberto Zuarth Occupation Senator | |
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Born 10 October 1977 (age 46) ( 1977-10-10 ) Villaflores, Chiapas, Mexico | ||
Political party National Action Party | ||
Los despachos del poder roberto gil zuarth
Roberto Gil Zuarth (born in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, 10 October 1977) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN. He was Undersecretary of the Interior. He also served as Deputy between 2009 and 2011 during the 61st Legislature. He contended in 2010 for the presidency of the National Action Party against Gustavo Madero Muñoz. He was Private Secretary to Mexican President Felipe Calderón. He currently serves as Senator of the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress. Since September 1, 2015 he is the President of the Mexican Senate.
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- Los despachos del poder roberto gil zuarth
- Intervenci n del senador roberto gil zuarth durante la comparecencia de osorio chong
- Early years and political career
- Other activities
- Publications
- References
Intervenci n del senador roberto gil zuarth durante la comparecencia de osorio chong
Early years and political career
Roberto Gil Zuarth studied Law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, and has a master's degree on Constitutional Law by the Charles III University of Madrid being a candidate to a PhD in Law by the same University.
He served as Executive Secretary of the Political Coordination Board in the Chamber of Deputies. He later served as Technical Secretary of the Presidency of the Executive Board of the Chamber.
He later became advisor to Alonso Lujambio, member of the General Council of the Federal Electoral Institute. From December 2006 to September 2007, he was Chief Advisor to the Secretariat of the Civil Service, which was run at the time by Germán Martínez Cázares. He was named representative of the PAN to the General Council of the Federal Electoral Institute and later named attorney to the National Executive Committee of his Party.
In 2009, he was elected Federal Deputy for the PAN to the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. During this period he became Undercoordinator of Legislative Process for the National Action Party's Parliamentary Group at the Chamber, as well as Secretary in the Budget and Public Accounts Committee. He was also Secretary of the Special Committee for the analysis of the Tax Expenditure Budget, and a member of the Constitutional Affairs Committee.
He requested license from his charge as Deputy in 2010, when he was named Undersecretary of the Interior of the Secretariat of the Interior. On January 2011, he was named Private Secretary of Mexican President Felipe Calderón.
He resigned a year later to become General Coordinator of the National Presidential Campaign of Josefina Vázquez Mota, candidate of the PAN to the Mexican Presidency in the 2012 general elections. On those same elections he won a seat as Senator of the Republic.
He is the author of several academic articles and essays on topics such as constitutional law, electoral law, and parliamentary law. He was a weekly columnist of Mexican journal Excélsior, until he became President of the Senate.
In 2013, the ITAM gave him the Professional Merit Award of the Public Sector, an award given every year to former alumni with distinguished professional careers.
Other activities
He has worked as an academic in the Universidad Anáhuac México Sur, teaching constitutional processes and political theory. Since May 2005, he was the academic coordinator of the program on electoral law of the ITAM.
Since 2005, he is member of the Mexican Network for a Democracy of Quality. He has been advisor to the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy of the Organization of American States in the regional project of better parliamentary practices (2003), advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank in the program of institutional strengthening of the Congress of the Republic of Peru, advisor of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and of the Mexican Representation in the State University of New York (SUNY).
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