Felipe Calderón done towards Calderón.<ref name="http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2013/10/23/924773"></ref> Throughout his office, Calderón has been awarded several honors from foreign nations. Felipe Calderón Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa, GCB, R.E. (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012. He was a member of the National Action Party ("Partido Acción Nacional", PAN) for thirty years before quiting the party in November 2018. Prior to the presidency, Calderón received two master's degrees and went on to work within the PAN while it was still an important opposition party. Calderón served as National
Mexican general election, 2006 to call, meaning that the difference between the two front-runners was smaller than their margin of error, or 0.3% of the vote. The IFE further declared that the official count, which began on Wednesday, July 5, 2006, was to determine which candidate will be recognized as president elect. Nevertheless, front-running presidential candidates Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (PAN) and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (PRD) declared themselves the winners, basing their speeches on a number of private exit-polls, some quoted and some not quoted, that gave a lead within the margin of error. PAN chairman Manuel Espino Barrientos requested that IFE declare a