Mexico, 9 sep (EFE).-the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, today announced the replacement of the Ministers of finance, Ernesto Cordero, and health, José Ãngel Córdova, who is expected to seek to be candidates in various elections in 2012.
In a message to the media, the agent also revealed that Executive security, Alejandro Poiré, spokesman will now be at the head of the Center for research and national security (Cisen), an institution to the work of intelligence, replacing Guillermo Valdes.
Changes happen to fifteen months to conclude the Administration headed by President Calderon (2006-2012).
Lamb, who took over the finance portfolio on December 9, 2009, “was essential to move forward with responsible budgets” in Mexico in recent years, said Calderon.
The ruler stressed its work to maintain “stability of public finances”, especially in times of crisis as the unleashed in 2008.
Lamb not concealed in recent months his intentions to seek the presidential nomination of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), which will face to the also figures Josefina Vázquez Mota and Santiago Creel, who are better positioned than him in the polls
Yesterday served Lamb with the delivery of the proposed budget for 2012, his last major event before giving the portfolio to the far head of energy, Jose Antonio Meade.
The latter, in turn, will be replaced by Jordy Herrera Flores, current director-general of Pemex Gas and PetroquÃmica Basic.
Córdova, who will be replaced in the Ministry of health by the Commissioner of the Popular insurance, Salomón Chertorivsky, was one of the Ministers better valued in the Cabinet by management in which he excelled the handling of the epidemic caused by the H1N1 2009 virus.
“Thanks to your timely intervention could take the necessary measures to reduce the speed and the chain of transmission (of HIV) and to cover all cases which had been submitted,” he said today Calderón.
On Poiré, already former technician of the Council of national security, the representative emphasized his commitment to “a theme which is particularly complex”, of the fight against organized crime.
From today Calderon asked him to “coordinate with the rest of the federal institutions, measures to prevent any threat that puts at risk to the population, national sovereignty, democracy and democratic institutions, good governance and the rule of law” at the head of the Cisen.
Changes are realized when the President, whose agenda today presented “private activities”, convene before noon in a message to the media at the official residence of Los Pinos. EFE
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