Partido Acción Nacional (Mexico)

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The Partido Acción Nacional ( PAN ) is a Christian Democratic and Conservative party in Mexico . Along with the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), it is one of the three major parties in the country.

history

Founder of PAN, Manuel Gómez Morín

The party was founded on September 16, 1939 in Mexico City on the initiative of Manuel Gómez Morín , the first party president of the PAN. Other co-founders were Luis Calderón Vega , Efraín González Luna , Miguel Estrada Iturbide , Rafael Preciado Hernández , Juan Landerreche Obregón , Gustavo Molina Font , Manuel Herrera y Lasso and Aquiles Elorduy .

In 1940 the party supported the candidacy of Juan Andrew Almazán . After PAN was approved as a national party in 1948, it presented its own presidential candidate for the first time in 1952, Efraín González Luna.

Vicente Fox , President of Mexico 2000–2006

It is the first party to end the decades of PRI rule. In 1983 the PAN won local elections in 31 cities in northern Mexico. She achieved her first successes at the state level in Baja California in 1989 and in Chihuahua in 1992 , where she was the governor. In 2000, she made Vicente Fox Quesada as President for the first time. In the following years it was successful in other states, but suffered significant losses in 2004.

Felipe Calderón , President of Mexico 2006–2012

Fox's successor as president was Felipe Calderón Hinojosa , who won the 2006 elections 0.58 percentage points ahead of the PRD candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador . His term of office ended in 2012. The PAN candidate, Josefina Vázquez Mota , was unable to build on the successes of her predecessors in the 2012 presidential election in Mexico . The new president was the PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto .

Party presidents

Presidential candidates

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