Pablo Emilio Madero

Pablo Emilio Madero Belden (August 3, 1921 – March 16, 2007) was a Mexican politician. He was the 13th president of the National Action Party (PAN, 1984–1987) and a presidential candidate who represented both the PAN and the defunct Mexican Democratic Party (Partido Demócrata Mexicano, PDM).

Pablo Emilio Madero Belden was the son of General Emilio Madero González and Mercedes Belden Gutiérrez. He graduated as a chemical engineer from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1945 as a Sugar and Oil specialist. Six years earlier, in 1939, he had joined the National Action Party (PAN) on December 6, 1939, as a youth group member, an institution he represented twice in the Chamber of Deputies (1979–1982 and 1991–1994, as a plurinominal deputy on both occasions) and presided both locally and nationally before leaving it in the early 1990s. He was Vice-President of the National Transformation Industry Chamber (CANACINTRA) and President of the Glass Producers Association of Latin America, among other positions.

Madero Belden left the PAN in 1991. In the 1994 general election, he stood as the presidential candidate of the Mexican Democratic Party but he lost with 97,935 votes or 0.28 percent of the total vote.

Madero Belden was married to Norma Morelos Zaragoza Luquin, with whom he had eight children: Norma Alicia, Pablo, Marcela, Leticia, Mercedes, Mónica, Guillermo and Jorge.

In 2007 Pablo Emilio Madero died at the age of 85, in Monterrey, Nuevo León.