| Post: | President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| Incumbent: | Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas |
| Incumbentsince: | 11 August 2024 |
| Status: | Party leader |
| Inaugural: | Manuel Pérez Treviño |
| Formation: | 4 March 1929 |
The president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), formally referred to as the President of the National Executive Committee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, holds the highest leadership position within the party. The current president is Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, who assumed office on 11 August 2024, having previously served as president from 2019 until July 2024.
The PRI was founded in 1929 by former President Plutarco Elías Calles under the name National Revolutionary Party (PNR). It was later renamed the Party of the Mexican Revolution (PRM) in 1938 before adopting its current name in 1946.[1] Throughout its history, the PRI has had 57 presidents.
A list of presidents (including interim leaders) since the party's founding as the National Revolutionary Party in 1929.
| President[2] | Secretary-General | Term of office | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 1 | Manuel Pérez Treviño | 4 March 1929 | 11 February 1930 | |||
| 2 | Basilio Badillo | 11 February 1930 | 22 April 1930 | |||
| 3 | Emilio Portes Gil | Genaro V. Vásquez | 22 April 1930 | 15 October 1930 | ||
| 4 | Lázaro Cárdenas | Silvestre Guerrero | 15 October 1930 | 25 August 1931 | ||
| 5 | Manuel Pérez Treviño | Pascual Ortiz Rubio | 28 August 1931 | 12 May 1933 | ||
| 6 | Melchor Ortega | Fernando Moctezuma | 12 May 1933 | 9 June 1933 | ||
| 7 | Carlos Riva Palacio | Federico Medrano V. | 25 August 1933 | 14 December 1934 | ||
| 8 | Matías Ramos Santos | 14 December 1934 | 15 June 1935 | |||
| José María Dávila | ||||||
| 9 | Emilio Portes Gil | Genaro V. Vásquez | 15 June 1935 | 26 August 1936 | ||
| 10 | Esteban García de Alba | 26 August 1936 | 2 April 1938 | |||
| President | Secretary-General | Term of office | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||
| 11 | Esteban García de Alba | 2 April 1938 | 19 June 1939 | ||
| 12 | Heriberto Jara Corona | Gustavo Cárdenas Huerta | 19 June 1939 | 2 December 1940 | |
| 13 | Florencio Padilla | 2 December 1940 | 19 January 1946 | ||
| Gustavo Cárdenas Huerta | |||||
| President | Secretary-General | Term of office | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 14 | 19 January 1946 | 5 December 1946 | ||||
| 15 | Teófilo Borunda | 4 December 1946 | 4 December 1952 | 6 years | ||
| José López Bermúdez | ||||||
| Adolfo López Mateos | ||||||
| 16 | Gabriel Leyva Velázquez | José Gómez Esparza | 4 December 1952 | 26 April 1956 | ||
| 17 | Rafael Corrales Ayala | 26 April 1956 | 3 December 1958 | |||
| 18 | Alfonso Corona del Rosal | Juan Fernández Albarrán | 4 December 1958 | 1 December 1964 | ||
| 19 | Carlos A. Madrazo | Lauro Ortega Martínez | 6 December 1964 | 22 November 1965 | ||
| 20 | Lauro Ortega Martínez | Fernando Díaz Durán | 22 November 1965 | 27 February 1968 | ||
| 21 | Alfonso Martínez Domínguez | Enrique Olivares Santana | 27 February 1968 | 7 December 1970 | ||
| 22 | 7 December 1970 | 21 February 1972 | ||||
| 23 | Jesús Reyes Heroles | Enrique González Pedrero | 21 February 1972 | 25 September 1975 | ||
| 24 | Porfirio Muñoz Ledo | Augusto Gómez Villanueva | 25 September 1975 | 4 December 1976 | ||
| 25 | Carlos Sansores Pérez | 4 December 1976 | 8 February 1979 | |||
| 26 | Gustavo Carvajal Moreno | José de las Fuentes Rodríguez | 8 February 1979 | 19 March 1981 | ||
| 27 | Javier García Paniagua | Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri | 19 March 1981 | 14 October 1981 | ||
| 28 | Manuel Bartlett | 14 October 1981 | 2 December 1982 | |||
| 29 | Adolfo Lugo Verduzco | Mario Vargas Saldaña | 2 December 1982 | 8 October 1986 | ||
| Francisco Luna Kan | ||||||
| Irma Cué Sarquis | ||||||
| 30 | Irma Cué Sarquis | 8 October 1986 | 3 December 1988 | |||
| Humberto Lugo Gil | ||||||
| Manuel Camacho Solís | ||||||
| 31 | Luis Donaldo Colosio | Rafael Rodríguez Barrera | 3 December 1988 | 13 April 1992 | ||
| 32 | Rafael Rodríguez Barrera | Beatriz Paredes Rangel | 13 April 1992 | 14 May 1992 | ||
| 33 | Genaro Borrego Estrada | Beatriz Paredes Rangel | 14 May 1992 | 30 March 1993 | ||
| José Luis Lamadrid Sauza | ||||||
| 34 | Fernando Ortiz Arana | José Luis Lamadrid Sauza | 30 March 1993 | 13 May 1994 | ||
| 35 | Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza | José Francisco Ruiz Massieu | 13 May 1994 | 3 December 1994 | ||
| María de los Ángeles Moreno | ||||||
| 36 | María de los Ángeles Moreno | Esteban Moctezuma | 3 December 1994 | 19 August 1995 | ||
| Pedro Joaquín Coldwell | ||||||
| 37 | Santiago Oñate Laborde | Juan Sigfrido Millán Lizárraga | 19 August 1995 | 13 December 1996 | ||
| 38 | Humberto Roque Villanueva | Juan Sigfrido Millán Lizárraga | 15 December 1996 | 11 September 1997 | ||
| 39 | Mariano Palacios Alcocer | Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez | 11 September 1997 | 31 March 1999 | ||
| Rosario Green | ||||||
| 40 | Dulce María Sauri Riancho | 1 April 1999 | 30 November 1999 | |||