Alliance for Mexico explained

Alliance for Mexico
Native Name:Alianza por México
Leader:Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
President: Gustavo Riojas Santana
Foundation:1999
Ideology:Social democracy
Left-wing nationalism
Dissolved:2001
Merger:Party of the Democratic Revolution

Social Alliance Party

Convergence

Labor Party

Party of the Nationalist Society

Position:Centre-left to left-wing

The Alliance for Mexico is the name of two multi-party electoral alliances in Mexico, one from 2000 and the other from 2006.

In the 2000 general election, Alliance for Mexico was a grouping of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, the Labor Party, the Party of the Nationalist Society, Convergence for the Democracy (founded by ex-PRI dissidents) and the Social Alliance Party (founded by precursors of the Mexican Democratic Party). Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas ran as its candidate for president of Mexico and won 19 percent of the vote. The Alliance also won 68 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 17 seats in the Senate.

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