About Santiago Creel
Santiago Creel Miranda (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo kɾil miˈɾanda]; born on 11 December 1954) is a Mexican lawyer and politician, and a member of the National Action Party (PAN). Since 1 September 2021, he had used to be a federal deputy and the current president of the Congress of the Union and of the board of directors of the Chamber of Deputies. However, Creel resigned from his position as president of the Chamber of Deputies on August 14, 2023, to pursue the presidential nomination for the 2024 elections. As of March 2026, the current President of the Chamber of Deputies is Kenia López Rabadán, who was appointed on 2 September 2025. He served as Secretary of the Interior during the presidency of Vicente Fox Quesada, from 2000 to 2005. In 2006, he was elected senator to the Congress of the Union and served as President of the Senate of the Republic from 2007 to 2008. In 2016 he served as Constituent Deputy of Mexico City. == Background and family life == Creel's campaign information describes him as a lawyer, father, and husband, as well as a Party loyalist. Born to an American father of Mexican, English, Irish and Spanish descent, and a French mother of German, German Jewish (as Creel's matrilineal lineage is Jewish, he should be considered to be a Jew by Jewish law), Spanish and Mexican ancestry, he is a descendant of the Creel-Terrazas family via his father René Creel (1921–2009) who was one of the founders of the National Action Party. Creel has a long history with the PAN. In 2008, he admitted that he is the father of actress Edith González's daughter, Constanza.
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