List of participants

Meeting of the Committee on Local Authorities of the Socialist International, Mexico City, 23-24 July 2001

Socialist International

Luis Ayala (Secretary General)

 

Chair of the Committee

Hermes Binner (Mayor of Rosario, Argentina, PSP)

 

Albania, Socialist Party of Albania, SPA

Blendi Klosi (Member of Parliament, ex Deputy Minister for local government)

 

Argentina, Popular Socialist Party, PSP

Juan Carlos Zabalza (Secretary General of the Municipality of Rosario)

 

Belgium, Socialist Party, PS

Daniel Bertrand

 

Chile, Radical Social Democratic Party, PRSD

Claudio Sule Fernández (Chair of the Committee of Mayors and Councillors of the PRSD, National Vice-President of the Chilean Association of Municipalities, and Councillor of Rancagua)

 

Dominican Republic, Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD

Ramón Antonio Pimentel (Mayor of Castañuelas)

Victor de Aza (Mayor of Villa González)

Luis José Chávez (General Secretary for the Town Council of Santo Domingo)

 

Greece, Panhellenic Socialist Movement, PASOK

George Pouseos (Mayor of Ios)

 

Mexico, Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD

Amalia D. García (President)

Jesús Zambrano (Secretary General)

Juan José García Ochoa (International Secretary)

Zeferino Torreblanca (Mayor of Acapulco)

Héctor Bautista (Mayor of Nezahualcóyotl)

Horacio Duarte (Mayor of Texcoco)

Reynaldo Escobar (Mayor of Xalapa)

Manuel Reveles (Mayor of Calera)

Justino Avila (Mayor of Tepic)

Leopoldo de Gyves (Mayor of Juchitán)

Humberto Peña (Mayor of Teotihuacan)

Hermilo Mejía (Mayor of Buenavista de Cuéllar)

Gilberto López y Rivas (Head of the district of Tlalpan, DF)

 

Mexico, Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI

Dulce María Sauri Riancho (President)

Ildefonso Guajardo (International Secretary)

Mario Marín Torres (Mayor of Puebla)

Gustavo Guerrero Ramos (Mayor of Culiacan)

Rogelio Rueda Sánchez (Mayor of Manzanillo)

José Reyes Baeza Terrazas (Mayor of Chihuahua)

José Adán Rubi Salazar (Mayor of Ixtapan de la Sal)

Juan Muñoz Caballero (Mayor of Iguala)

Oscar Pimentel González (Mayor of Saltillo)

César Garza Villarreal (Mayor of Apodaca)

Vicente Vargas López (Mayor of Tonala, JAL)

Sergio Arredondo Olvera (Executive Director of the National Federation of Municipalities)

 

Nicaragua, Sandinista National Liberation Front, FSLN

Francisco Valenzuela (Mayor of Estelí)

 

Panama, Democratic Revolutionary Party, PRD

Felipe Cano (Legislator)

 

Territories under Palestinian Authority, Palestine,  FATAH

Raji Zidan (Mayor of the Municipality of Beit Jala)

 

Senegal, Socialist Party of Senegal, PS

Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye (Ex Minister; Mayor of Louga, and Vice-President of SI Women)

 

Spain, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE

Antonio Luis Hernández (Department Director at the Federal Secretariat for Cities and Municipal Policy)

 

SI Secretariat

Latifa Perry (Assistant to the Secretary General)

 

Guests

Argentina, FREPASO

Martín Sabbatela (Mayor of the City of Moron, Province of Buenos Aires)

Santiago Curci (Secretary for Strategic Planning, City of Moron)

 

Brazil, Workers’ Party, PT

José Machado (Mayor of the Municipality of Piracicaba, São Paulo)

Gilberto Carvalho (Government Secretary of the Municipality of Santo André)