Ricardo Canavati Tafich

Jesús Ricardo Canavati Tafich (born 8 October, 1943 in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He currently serves in the lower house of the Mexican Congress as an Institutional Revolutionary Party proportional representation deputy.

Political career

Canavati has occupied several positions in the public service and has been elected to public office several times. He served as mayor of San Nicolás de los Garza (1979–1982) and then from 1985 to 1988 he occupied a seat in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico. In 1988 we was elected Senator for a three-years term. During the 1990s he served in different positions including under-secretary of the Secretariat of Social Development (Secretaría de Desarrollo Social' or SEDESOL), comptroller of the Mexico City Metro, federal deputy (1997–2000) and president of the PRI in Nuevo León. In 2000 he was elected again to served in the Mexican Senate. In 2003 he ran for the municipal presidency (mayorship) of the municipality of Monterrey and won defeating the PAN candidate Francisco Cantú thus he served as municipal president from 2003 to March, 2006. In 2006 he secured a seat in the Chamber of Deputies via the proportional representation (PR).

Canavati Tafich is married to Elena Hadjópulos with whom he has had four children: Elenitza, Jesús, Ricardo and Eugenio.