Manuel Bartlett
Manuel Bartlett Díaz (born 23 February 1936) is a Mexican politician, and the current director of the public energy company CFE, and former Secretary of the Interior. Bartlett was elected to the Senate of the Republic for the 2000–2006 term, where he became known as one of the most staunch defenders of state ownership of electric utilities. On May 27, 2006, in view of the low possibility of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate Roberto Madrazo winning the Presidency, Bartlett declared that he would vote for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, then candidate for the Party of the Democratic Revolution, to avoid a right-wing victory. Madrazo and the national leader of the PRI, Mariano Palacios, both condemned these declarations, and announced the possible expulsion of Bartlett from the party. Bartlett responded by continuing to speak out against both leaders.
Manuel Bartlett | |
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Manuel Bartlett Díaz | |
| Director of the Federal Electricity Commission | |
| Assumed office 1 December 2018 | |
| President | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
| Preceded by | Jaime Francisco Hernández |
| Secretary of the Interior of Mexico | |
| In office December 1 1982 – November 30 1988 | |
| Preceded by | Enrique Olivares Santana |
| Succeeded by | Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios |
| Governor of Puebla | |
| In office February 1 1993 – January 31 1999 | |
| President | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Preceded by | Mariano Piña Olaya |
| Succeeded by | Melquíades Morales |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 23, 1936 Puebla de Zaragoza, Puebla |
| Political party | Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Labor Party (PT) |
| Parent(s) | Manuel Bartlett Bautista Isabel Díaz Castilla |
| Profession | Lawyer, politician |
Since the 2006 election, Bartlett has aligned himself with López Obrador and his Coalition for the Good of All. In 2012 he reentered national politics, being elected a senator for the left-wing Labor Party, in coalition with López Obrador's PRD. After López Obrador's election as Mexican president in 2018, he appointed Bartlett to become the CEO of Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), the state-owned electric utility of Mexico, the country's second most powerful state-owned company after PEMEX. Bartlett has been described as a corrupt politician.