Edgardo Melhem Salinas

Edgardo Melhem Salinas (born 14 August 1969) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He has been elected to Congress for Tamaulipas's 3rd district on two occasions: in the 2009 mid-terms (61st Congress), and in the 2015 mid-terms (63rd Congress).

Life In 1992, Melhem graduated from the Universidad de Monterrey with a law degree; while studying, he presided over the PRI's Revolutionary Youth Front in Río Bravo, and he also headed the U de M's Association of Law School Students.

In January 2015, nearly two years after being named to the position, Melhem resigned from Sedesol in order to seek a return to the Chamber of Deputies, and that June, voters in the third district returned him to San Lázaro for the 63rd Congress in 2015; not only did the PRI sweep the eight districts of Tamaulipas in the election, but Melhem took home the second-highest vote total of all of the federal deputies up for election in the country's 300 districts. He serves on three commissions: Urban Development and Land Use, Hydraulic Resources, and Agriculture and Irrigation Systems.