Agustín Basave Benítez

Agustín Francisco de Asis Basave Benítez (born September 21, 1958) is a Mexican politician and former president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. From August 29 to November 6, 2015, he represented Nuevo León in the Chamber of Deputies of the LXIII Legislature. He resigned from the Chamber on November 6, 2015, in order to become president of the PRD, a position he held until July 2, 2016.

Early life and education Basave was born on September 21, 1958, in Monterrey. He served as a full-time investigator at the UNAM's Institute of Social Investigations and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Administration Systems, awarded by the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in 1980. He arrived at a party fraught with internal issues and losing popularity with the electorate.

In January 2016, Basave presented his resignation from the PRD presidency, but took it back and continued as the head of the party. On June 18, Basave definitively presented his resignation from the presidency effective July 2, noting that he failed to serve as a "sort of referee" between internal factions and that the decision was not prompted by the party's performance in gubernatorial elections. Basave will return to the Chamber of Deputies.

Academic work Basave has been a regular guest on various radio and television opinion programs and has written columns for various newspapers. Among the outlets where Basave has contributed are Excélsior, Reforma, FOROtv, the Primer Plano program from Canal Once, and Radio Monitor. He also hosted a program, ¿A que le tiras...?, on the efektoTV cable channel.

Basave also has published several books, including Soñar no cuesta nada, México mestizo and Mexicanidad y esquizofrenia.