New Alliance Party (Mexico) Explained

Country:Mexico
New Alliance Party
Native Name:Partido Nueva Alianza
Leader:Luis Castro Obregón
Founder:Elba Esther Gordillo
Dissolution: (at national level)
Split:Institutional Revolutionary Party
Headquarters:Durango núm. 199, Col. Roma, Deleg. Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City
Youth Wing:Alianza Joven
Ideology:Liberalism
Position:Centre
International:Liberal International
Affiliation1 Title:Continental affiliation
Affiliation1:Liberal Network for Latin America
Colours: Turquoise
Seats1 Title:Seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Seats2 Title:Seats in the Senate
Seats3 Title:Governorships
Seats4 Title:Mayors
Seats5 Title:Seats in State legislatures
Website:www.nueva-alianza.org.mx

The New Alliance Party (Spanish; Castilian: Partido Nueva Alianza, PNA or PANAL) is a state-level (previously national, until 2018) political party in Mexico founded in 2005.[1] [2]

Its creation was proposed by the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE, National Union of Education Workers), the largest trade union in Latin America,[3] [4] led by Elba Esther Gordillo, the controversial former general secretary of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).[5]

History

The New Alliance Party achieved its official registry on July 14, 2005,[6] three years after the SNTE created the Asociación Ciudadana del Magisterio (ACM, Citizen Association of Teachers), a political group recognized by the Federal Electoral Institute since August 2002. The creation of this party by the SNTE, a group that had traditionally supported the PRI in every election, caused accusations of treason for Gordillo.

The party's president is Jorge Kahwagi. On 8 January 2006, the PNA elected Roberto Campa as its candidate for president in the 2006 general elections. In the 2006 legislative elections the party won nine out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one out of 128 Senators. In the 2009 legislative elections the party lost one seat in the Chamber of Deputies, leaving it with eight seats. In the 2012 legislative elections, PANAL won 2 seats in the Senate (an overall loss of 3), and 10 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (an overall gain of 3).[7]

The party logo distinctly resembles that of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance, a conservative party active from 2000 to 2003. The logo was provided by an ad agency, purported to resemble a dove. Despite the discovery of the logo's resemblance to that of the Canadian Alliance (leading one founding member of the party to express feeling "robbed"), it was nonetheless adopted. The party's 2012 presidential candidate, Gabriel Quadri, appeared in a wetsuit at his campaign launch, as did Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day.[8]

In 2018, the party entered into coalition with the PRI and Green Party (PVEM) to support the nomination of José Antonio Meade.[9] Meade finished a distant third behind Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but the results for New Alliance were worse. The party failed to attract three percent of the vote in all three elections for president, proportional representation federal deputies, and senators, which under Mexican law prompts the loss of its federal registry and the appointment of a liquidator by the INE to dispose of the party's assets.[10] Nueva Alianza and the Social Encounter Party, the other party to lose its registry after the 2018 elections, challenged the result, to no avail. The PNA was officially dissolved at the national level on 3 September 2018,[11] although it is still officially registered as a party in several individual states, and operates as a political organization in the others.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election yearCandidate
  1. votes
% voteResultNote
2006Roberto Campa Cifrián401,8040.96 Defeated
2012Gabriel Quadri de la Torre1,146,0852.34 Defeated
2018José Antonio Meade Kuribreña561,1930.99 Defeated

Congressional elections

Chamber of Deputies

Election yearConstituencyPR
  1. of seats
PositionPresidencyNote
votes%votes%
20063,637,68514.13,637,68514.0Minority
20091,181,8503.41,186,8763.4Minority
20121,977,1854.291,986,5384.08Minority
20151,480,0903.911,486,9353.72Minority
20181,391,3762.47Minority

Senate elections

Election yearConstituencyPR
  1. of seats
PositionPresidencyNote
votes%votes%
20061,677,0334.11,688,1984.0Minority
20121,796,8163.91,855,4033.9Minority
20181,307,0152.31Minority

Further reading

Panal history (in Spanish) Retrieved Dec 16, 2018

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nueva Alianza se queda sin registro como partido político . www.eluniversal.com.mx . 21 November 2018. Dec 16, 2018.
  2. https://www.huffingtonpost.com.mx/2018/11/21/nueva-alianza-pierde-su-registro-como-partido_a_23596569/ Retrieved Dec 16, 2018
  3. Web site: El SNTE, de sindicato más poderoso de América Latina, a simple Tehuacán sin gas . libertadbajopalabra.com . 13 August 2017. Dec 16, 2018.
  4. Web site: Considerado Como la Organización Sindical Más Grande de América Latina | PDF | Enrique Peña Nieto | Ciudad de México . www.scribd.com . Dec 16, 2018.
  5. Web site: Partido Nueva Alianza, una vergüenza más para el sistema político mexicano . www.milenio.com . Dec 16, 2018.
  6. https://nueva-alianza.org.mx/historia/ Retrieved Dec 16, 2018.
  7. Web site: Seelke. Claire. Mexico's 2012 Elections. Congressional Research Service. 10 December 2012.
  8. News: 13 May 2012 . The Canadian Alliance in Mexico: Gabriel Quadri and his party making waves . .
  9. Web site: La Jornada: Todos por México, nombre de la alianza que apoya a Meade . www.jornada.com.mx . 23 January 2018. Dec 16, 2018.
  10. News: Panal y PES pierden registro; INE inicia proceso de liquidación. 9 July 2018. El Sol de México. 9 July 2018.
  11. Web site: INE aprueba pérdida de registro de Nueva Alianza y Encuentro Social. El Economista. 3 September 2018. 6 September 2018.