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POLITICS IN MEXICO

POLITICS IN MEXICO. LUIS ESTRADA lmestrad@weber.ucsd.edu Spring quarter 2005. Political Parties: PAN. National Action Party (1939) Founders: Manuel Gómez-Morín, Efraín Gonzalez-Luna Origin: Response to leftist economic policies of Lázaro Cárdenas

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POLITICS IN MEXICO

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  1. POLITICS IN MEXICO LUIS ESTRADA lmestrad@weber.ucsd.edu Spring quarter 2005

  2. Political Parties: PAN • National Action Party (1939) • Founders: Manuel Gómez-Morín, Efraín Gonzalez-Luna • Origin: Response to leftist economic policies of Lázaro Cárdenas • Doctrine: Political Humanism (conservative) • Strategy: “Centripetal” (Municipality- Governorship-Presidency)

  3. Political Parties: PAN • 1946: First Representative elected to the Chamber of Deputies (Tacámbaro, Michoacán) • 1947: First Municipal President elected (Quiroga, Michoacán) • 1952: First Presidential candidate: Efraín González- Luna • 1989: First Governor elected (Baja California) • 1991: First Senator elected (Baja California) • 2000: First Non-PRI President elect: Vicente Fox

  4. Political Parties: PRI • Institutional Revolutionary Party (1929 PNR; 1934 PRM; 1946 PRI) • Founders: Plutarco Elías-Calles, Revolutionary Family: L. Cárdenas, M. Alemán • Origin: Consummation of the Mexican Revolution • Doctrine: ? • Strategy: Experience

  5. Political Parties: PRI • 1929: Elías-Calles creates the PNR • 1934: Lázaro Cárdenas changes the name to PRM • 1946: Miguel Alemán changes the name to PRI • 1988: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas exits the PRI • 1994: Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated in Lomas Taurinas, BC • 2000: The PRI ends its seven-decade tenure

  6. Political Parties: PRD • Democratic Revolution Party (1989) • Founders: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Porfirio Muñoz-Ledo and leaders of leftist parties and currents (Heberto Castillo) • Origin: Discrepancy with the PRI leaders, democracy as alternation • Doctrine: Equality, justice, democracy (progressive) • Strategy: “Centrifugal” (Presidency everything else)

  7. Political Parties: PRD • 1988: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas exits the PRI and is nominated by the PARM and other small leftist parties (FDN) • 1997: First Governorship (Mexico City) and second strongest party in the Chamber of Deputies • 2006: AMLO?

  8. Other Parties: PT, PVEM, Convergencia • PT (Labor Party) 1991 • No specific ideology • Coalitions with the PRD at the state and municipal level • PVEM (Green Party) 1991 • Not really ‘ecology-oriented’ • Coalitions with the PAN (2000) and since then with the PRI at the state and municipal level • Convergencia (Convergence for Democracy) 1997 • Support for independent candidates • Coalitions with any party (with PAN in the State of Mexico)

  9. Governorships (May 2005)

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