Mexican Socialist Party
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Party of the Democratic Revolution
The Party of the Democratic Revolution is a democratic socialist party in Mexico and one of 2 Mexican affiliates of the Socialist International...
, it was the last effort of unification of the different Mexican parties of left and the last political party that the socialist word in its name was officially used. It existed between 1987 and 1989.
The PMS was founded in 1987 through the merger of the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico
Unified Socialist Party of Mexico
The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico was a far-left political party in Mexico. It later became the Mexican Socialist Party in 1988...
, the Mexican Workers' Party
Mexican Workers' Party
The Mexican Workers' Party was an old Mexican political party of left, that had legal registration in the 1980s, its main political figures were Heberto Castillo and Demetrio Vallejo....
, the Unity of the Communist Left, the People's Revolutionary Movement and the Revolutionary Patriotic Party.
The party participated solely in the 1988 elections
Mexican general election, 1988
General elections were held in Mexico on July 6, 1988. The presidential elections were won by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who received 50.7% of the vote, the lowest for a winning candidate since direct elections were introduced for the presidency in 1917...
, in which it had postulated like its candidate to Heberto Castillo
Heberto Castillo
Heberto Castillo Martínez was a Mexican civil engineer and political activist.Castillo was born in Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, and received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National Autonomous University...
, a month before the accomplishment of the elections, Castillo decided to decline its candidacy in favor of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano and to integrate itself in the National Democratic Front (extended front of left parties) that postulated it to the Presidency of the Republic, when finishing the electoral process, in 1989 the PMS along with integrated the old Democratic Current of the PRI
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexican political party that held power in the country—under a succession of names—for more than 70 years. The PRI is a member of the Socialist International, as is the rival Party of the Democratic Revolution , making Mexico one of the few...
and constituted the Party of the Democratic Revolution with the own legal registry of the PMS.
PMS candidates for the Presidency
- (1988): Heberto CastilloHeberto CastilloHeberto Castillo Martínez was a Mexican civil engineer and political activist.Castillo was born in Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, and received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National Autonomous University...
(declined) - (1994): Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano (allied with PPSPopular Socialist Party (Mexico)The Popular Socialist Party is a communist party in Mexico. It was founded in 1948 as the Popular Party by Vicente Lombardo Toledano....
, PARMAuthentic Party of the Mexican RevolutionThe Authentic Party of Mexican Revolution is a Mexican political party, that existed from 1955 to 2000. PARM was generally considered a satellite party of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party ....
and PFCRN to form National Democratic Front)
See also
- Unified Socialist Party of MexicoUnified Socialist Party of MexicoThe Unified Socialist Party of Mexico was a far-left political party in Mexico. It later became the Mexican Socialist Party in 1988...
- Party of the Democratic RevolutionParty of the Democratic RevolutionThe Party of the Democratic Revolution is a democratic socialist party in Mexico and one of 2 Mexican affiliates of the Socialist International...
- List of political parties in Mexico