Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction
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The Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction was a Mexican political party that existed from 1987 to 1997.
Known in its infancy as the Socialist Workers' Party (PST), The PFCRN arose in 1987 and followed the political and ideological thought of former Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, who was defined as intellectual author of the party.
In 1988, the PFCRN endorsed National Democratic Front
presidential candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano, son of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.
In 1994 the PFCRN lost its registry due to weak vote support but recovered it in 1996 and in 1997, and under the new name Partido Cardenista (PC), participated in the first elections for head of government of the Federal District
, postulating Pedro Ferríz, a well-known journalist, as its candidate. In these elections it lost its registry definitively and it disappeared.
Due to the length of its name and impronunciable abbreviations, the party was known popularly as El Ferrocarril (English: The Railroad).
Known in its infancy as the Socialist Workers' Party (PST), The PFCRN arose in 1987 and followed the political and ideological thought of former Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, who was defined as intellectual author of the party.
In 1988, the PFCRN endorsed National Democratic Front
National Democratic Front (Mexico)
The National Democratic Front was a coalition of left-wing Mexican political parties created in 1988 presidential elections, and that is the immediate antecedent of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. It was result of an agglutination of small political left and center-left forces with a...
presidential candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano, son of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.
In 1994 the PFCRN lost its registry due to weak vote support but recovered it in 1996 and in 1997, and under the new name Partido Cardenista (PC), participated in the first elections for head of government of the Federal District
Head of Government of the Federal District
The Head of Government wields executive power in the Mexican Federal District.The Head of Government serves a six-year term, running concurrently with that of the President of the Republic....
, postulating Pedro Ferríz, a well-known journalist, as its candidate. In these elections it lost its registry definitively and it disappeared.
Due to the length of its name and impronunciable abbreviations, the party was known popularly as El Ferrocarril (English: The Railroad).
PFCRN candidates
- 1988 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 PMSMexican Socialist PartyThe Socialist Mexican Party was the former left-wing Mexican political party immediate antecedent of the present Party of the Democratic Revolution, 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...
to form National Democratic FrontNational Democratic Front (Mexico)The National Democratic Front was a coalition of left-wing Mexican political parties created in 1988 presidential elections, and that is the immediate antecedent of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. It was result of an agglutination of small political left and center-left forces with a...
) - 1994 Rafael Aguilar TalamantesRafael Aguilar TalamantesRafael Aguilar Talamantes is a Mexican politician.Talamantes graduated from the National School of Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1962 where he attended from 1958...