Luis Felipe Bravo Mena
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) is a Mexican
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politician. He was elected as the 17th president of the National Action Party
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(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
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(1991 – 1994) and in the Senate
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(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
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Bravo is married to María Teresita del Niño Jesús Tinoco Aldana and has four children: Luis Felipe, María Teresa, Mariano and Florentina.
On March 26th, 2011 Bravo Mena became a contender for the PAN nomination to the government of the State of Mexico.