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.
Mexico has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.
The parties
The general rule on naming applies. That means: the parties are named in the English translation and the original native name is placed on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the English form. Rationale and specifics: See: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English).
Following the 6 July2003 midterm election, Mexico has six nationally recognized political parties. National recognition is given to those parties that secure representation in Congress (effectively, a share of the popular vote greater than 2%).
Under Mexican law, parties are listed in the order in which they were first registered, thus:
PAN: the National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional) – the party that carried incumbent president Vicente Fox into power.
PRI: the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) – in power, under different names, at the local, state, and national levels for most of the 20th century.
In terms of their congressional representation and share of the national vote, the first three can be considered major parties. The other three are, in comparison, minor.
Other political parties and leaders
These parties are either defunct, nonofficial or informal, or operational only in individual states:
Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo (LTS) (Trotskist)
Partido Alianza Social (PAS) Social Alliance Party - José Antonio CALDERÓN Cardoso
Partido Auténtico de Revolución Mexicana (PARM) - Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution
Partido de Centro Democrático (PCD) Party of the Democratic Center - Manuel CAMACHO Solís
Partido Comunista Mexicano (PCM)
Partido Demócrata Mexicano
Social Democratic Party (PDS) - Gilberto RINCÓN Gallardo
Partido del Frente Cardenista de Reconstrucción Nacional (PFCRN)
Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM)
Partido Obrero Socialista (POS)
Partido Popular Socialista (PPS)
Party of the Nationalist Society (PSN) - Gustavo RIOJAS Santana
In the 19th century the two important parties were:
Mexico's ruling party early today scuttled a carefully crafted package of political reforms that were to be a hallmark of President Ernesto Zedillo's administration and move the country toward clean, uncontested elections.
Political analysts said that the PRI lawmakers, who have often promised political reforms but rarely delivered them, watered down Zedillo's proposals because of the drubbing their party took in local elections in the states of Mexico, Hidalgo and Coahuila.
Party access to the media during election campaigns is also tightly controlled in Mexico, and under the new PRI-backed rules, 70 percent of media time will be divided among the parties according to the number of votes that they have received in the past.
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