Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (b. August 18, 1962 in Morelia, Michoacán) is the current President of Mexico since December 1, 2006. He is affiliated to the National Action Party (PAN), a right-of-center organization with liberal ideals. His six-year-term expires on November 30, 2012.

Calderón was elected in the contested 2006 Presidential Elections. The results were controversial and contested by opponent Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, but they were validated by the courts in September of 2006.

Prior to the Presidency, Calderón participated actively in PAN politics. He has served as National President of the Party, Federal Deputy, and Secretary of Energy in …

Vicente Fox Quesada (born July 2, 1942) was President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. He was elected in the 2000 presidential election, a historically significant election that made him the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco Madero in 1911. He was elected with 42 percent of the vote, marking the first time that the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party had lost an election. When Fox took office, it marked the first time in Mexico’s history that an incumbent president had peacefully surrendered power to an elected opposition victor.

A general election was held in Mexico on Sunday, July 2, 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the federal level:

A new President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing current Mexican President Vicente Fox (ineligible for re-election under the 1917 Constitution).
500 members (300 by the first-past-the-post system and 200 by proportional representation) to serve for a three-year term in the Chamber of Deputies.
128 members (three per state by first-past-the-post and 32 by proportional representation from national party lists) to serve six-year terms in the Senate. In each state, two first-past-the-post seats are allocated to the …