Diego Fernández de Cevallos
Diego Fernández de Cevallos Ramos is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the conservative National Action Party. He was a presidential candidate in the 1994 election and President of the Mexican Senate.
Life and career
Fernández de Cevallos was born in Mexico City, the son of José Fernández de Cevallos Martínez and Beatriz Ramos Íñigo. He received a bachelor's degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and took several courses in economics at the Ibero-American University, where he also worked as a professor of criminal and commercial law.He joined the conservative National Action Party in 1959 and led its parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate. In 1994 he ran for president representing his party and lost against the PRI candidate, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León.
Outside politics, Fernández de Cevallos runs an influential law firm specialized in criminal, civil and commercial law. He was married only by the religious rite to Claudia Gutiérrez Navarrete. Currently he lives with his partner Liliana de León Maldonado.
At 80 years of age Fernández de Cevallos decided to join social media in order to persuade young people to adopt conservative values. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador responded to Fernández de Cevallos' criticisms of his government by showing a video of a debate they had in 2000.