Joint meeting with Negocios Entre Amigos (NEA) = Business Amongst Friends

Topic: The Constitution in times of economic fragility

Speaker: Margarita Ester Zavala Gómez del Camp, Mexican lawyer and politician

Presentation:
The Political Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1917 is a constitution and fundamental norm, established to legally govern the country, which sets the limits and defines the relationships between the powers of the federation: legislative, executive and judicial powers, among the three differentiated orders of governmentː the federal, state and municipal, and between all those and the citizens. Likewise, it establishes the bases for the government and for the organization of the institutions in which power is based and establishes, as the supreme social pact of Mexican society, the rights and duties of the Mexican people.

Speaker's bio:
Margarita Ester Zavala Gómez del Campo, is a Mexican lawyer and politician. She was the first lady of Mexico from 2006 to 2012, during the presidency of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. She was also a multi-member deputy of the Congress of the Union during the LIX Legislature from 2003 to 2006 and a local deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District from 1994 to 1997.