Popular Force Party Explained

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Popular Force Party
Native Name:Partido Fuerza Popular
Merged:Mexican Democratic Party
Leader1 Title:Leaders
Leader1 Name:Gildardo González Sánchez
Jesús A. Castro
Headquarters:León, Guanajuato
Ideology:Mexican nationalism
National syndicalism
Social conservatism
Clerical fascism
Third Positionism
Position:Far-right
Religion:Roman Catholicism
Flag:File:Bandera_de_la_Unión_Nacional_Sinarquista.svg
Country:Mexico

The Popular Force Party or People's Force Party was a Mexican political party created in 1945 as the electoral arm of the National Synarchist Union.[1] It participated in the 1946 presidential election, in which it supported the independent Jesús A. Castro.

The party was banned when on December 19, 1948, members of the party decided to put a black hood on the monument of former president Benito Juárez in Mexico City. It continued to enter electoral politics until the 1970s.[2] during the early 1970s, the organizations rearmaments formed and merged into the far-right Mexican Democratic Party.[3]

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Notes and References

  1. Book: Larissa Adler de Lomnitz. Larissa Adler Lomnitz. Rodrigo Salazar Elena. Ilya Adler. Symbolism and Ritual in a One-party Regime: Unveiling Mexico's Political Culture. 2010. University of Arizona Press. 978-0-8165-2753-3. 346.
  2. Book: Scott Mainwaring. Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Regime Conflicts. 2003. Stanford University Press. 978-0-8047-4598-7. 213–.
  3. Book: Ciudadanía, democracia y propaganda electoral en México 1910-2018 . 2018 . INE, Instituto Nacional Electoral . es.