The National Action Party (Spanish: Partido Acción Nacional), known by the acronym PAN, is a conservative party and one of the three main political parties in Mexico. Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections. ...

Mexican Roman Catholics, together with other conservatives, founded the PAN in 1939 after the cristero insurgency lost the Cristero War. They were looking for a peaceful way to bring about change in the country and to achieve political representation, after the years of chaos and violence that followed the Mexican Revolution. The turning point in the Cristero War was when the Catholic Church reached an agreement with the National Revolutionary Party – the forerunner of the monolithic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that dominated power for most of the 20th century – whereunder it turned a blind eye to the lack of democracy in the country and stopped supporting the Catholic rebels, threatening its members with excommunication if they disobeyed the government. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The struggle between church and state in Mexico broke out in armed conflict during the Cristero War (also known as the Cristiada) of 1926–1929. ... The Mexican Revolution was a violent social and cultural movement, colored by socialist, nationalist, and anarchist tendencies that began with the popular rejection of dictator Porfirio Díaz Mori in 1910 and culminated in the promulgation of a new constitution seven years later. ... The Roman Catholic Church believes its founding was based on Jesus appointment of Saint Peter as the primary church leader, later Bishop of Rome. ... The Institutional Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional or PRI) held power in Mexico for more than 70 years. ... The Institutional Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional or PRI) held power in Mexico for more than 70 years. ... Excommunication is a religious censure which is used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. ...

The PAN spent the years from its foundation in 1939 in opposition, as all presidents since the end of the Mexican Revolution were from the PRI or its variously named predecessors. This changed on July 2, 2000, when Vicente Fox Quesada of the PAN won the presidential election. 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Vicente Fox Quesada (born July 2, 1942) is the current president of Mexico. ... (Redirected from 2000 Mexican general election) Mexico held a general election on Sunday, 2 July 2000. ...

The PAN occupies the right of Mexico's political spectrum, advocating free enterprise, reduced taxes, smaller government, and reform of the welfare state. It is much like the United States Republican Party or Europe's Christian Democratic parties, and many of its members are also advocates of Roman Catholicism. The PAN officially claims to be a non-confessional party in a country that is 90% Catholic; however, while on the campaign trail in 2000, Vicente Fox appeared holding a banner emblazoned with the revered icon of the Virgin of Guadalupe – and was fined MXN $20,000 for mixing religion and politics. The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Christian Democracy is a political ideology, born at the end of the 19th century, largely as a result of the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII, in which the Vatican recognizes workers misery and agrees that something should be done about it, in reaction to the rise of... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Our Lady of Guadalupe (reproduction) San Juan Bautista, Coyoacán, DF Our Lady of Guadalupe is the title given to the Virgin Mary after appearing, according to legend, to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an Aztec convert to Catholicism, in the village of Guadalupe (the present-day Gustavo A. Madero, D... The peso is the currency of Mexico. ...

In certain extreme cases, individual PAN mayors and governors have banned public employees from using miniskirts (Guadalajara, Jalisco), clamped down on the use of profanity in public marketplaces (Santiago de Querétaro), and – in one particularly notorious case in the northern state of Baja California – brought extreme religious and political pressure to bear on a teenaged rape victim to dissuade her from terminating her pregnancy, as she was legally entitled to do. Such extreme stances are not, however, shared by many of the PAN's middle-class rank and file members, who traditionally saw supporting the party as the best way of preventing the hated PRI from remaining in power. Women wearing short skirts The miniskirt is a skirt whose hemline is way above the knees (generally 20-30 cm above knee-level). ... Guadalajara is a large city in the Western-Pacific region of Mexico, located at 20. ... Profanity is a word choice or usage which many consider to be offensive. ... Santiago de Querétaro is the capital city of the state of Querétaro, Mexico. ... Other Mexican States Capital Mexicali Other major cities Tijuana Ensenada list of municipalities Area 69,921 km² Ranked 12th Population (2000 census) 2,487,700 Ranked 15th Governor (2001-07) Eugenio Elorduy Walther (PAN/PVEM) Federal Deputies (6) PAN = 6 Federal Senators PAN = 2 PRI = 1 ISO 3166-2 Postal...

The party is led by Manuel Espino Barrientos (2005). 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On July 4, 2004, the PAN lost several important state elections, including governorship elections in the states of Zacatecas, Chihuahua, and Durango, to candidates from the PRI and PRD. Coupled with defeats in other gubernatorial elections in 2003 (particularly the northern industrial powerhouse of Nuevo León, and a bitterly fought election in Colima that was cancelled and later re-run), this development was considered by some political analysts to be a significant repudiation of the PAN in advance of the 2006 presidential election. The defeat was considered especially severe in Chihuahua because that state was where PAN won its first electoral victories in 1983, when PAN mayoral candidates won in the border city of Ciudad Juárez and state capital Chihuahua. In contrast, 2004 did see the PAN win for the first time in Tlaxcala, defeating the PRD in a state that would not normally be considered PAN homeland; it also managed to hold on to Querétaro and Aguascalientes. (See: 2003 Mexican elections and 2004 Mexican elections for results.) July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Zacatecas is the name of a city and a state in Mexico. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Durango could mean any of the following: Durango (state) – a state in Mexico Durango, Durango (Victoria de Durango) – the capital city of the above state Durango, Spain – city in Vizcaya, Spain Durango, Colorado – a city in the United States of America Durango, Iowa – a city in the United States of... The Party of the Democratic Revolution (in Spanish: Partido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD) is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. ... Other Mexican States Capital Monterrey Other major cities list of municipalities Area 64,924 km² Ranked 13th Population (2000 census) 3,826,240 Ranked 9th Governor (2003-09) José Natividad González Parás (PRI/PVEM) Federal Deputies (11) PRI/PVEM = 10 PAN = 1 Federal Senators PAN = 2 PRI = 1 ISO 3166... Colima is the name of a city and a state in Mexico. ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Ciudad Juárez (2000 population 1,142,354) is a city in Chihuahua, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, USA. It is the major port of entry and transportation center of north central Mexico and the fifth largest city in México. ... The city of Chihuahua is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. ... Tlaxcala is the name of a city and a state in Mexico. ... Other Mexican States Capital Santiago de Querétaro Other major cities San Juan del Río list of municipalities Area 11,449 km² Ranked 27th Population (2000 census) 1,402,010 Ranked 24th Governor (2003-09) Francisco Garrido Patrón ( PAN) Federal Deputies (4) PAN = 3 PRI/ PVEM = 1 Federal... Other Mexican States Capital Aguascalientes, Ags. ... A number of elections, both federal and local, took place in Mexico during 2003: 6 July 2003 Federal Congress Chamber of Deputies – 500 federal deputies See: 2003 Mexican general election Colima Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2003 Colima state election Nuevo León Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2003... A number of local elections are to take place in Mexico during 2004: 4 July 2004 Chihuahua Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2004 Chihuahua State election Durango Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2004 Durango State election Zacatecas Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2004 Zacatecas state election 1...

External links

• Official party website (http://www.pan.org.mx/) (in Spanish)
• New Mexican President May Be OK for Gays (http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/world/071400wo.htm)
• Artists try to decipher Mexico's new political canvas (http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/2000/08/30/f-p11s2.shtml)
• The New Face of Mexico: Vicente Fox's Mexican Revolution (http://hir.harvard.edu/articles/index.html?id=995&page=1)

See also

• Politics of Mexico
• List of political parties in Mexico
• Mexico