Partido Popular Socialista (Mexico)

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The Partido Popular Socialista (PPS; German : Socialist People's Party ) was a communist -oriented Mexican party from the 1960s , which was originally founded in 1948 by Vicente Lombardo Toledano according to the ideologies of the labor movement under the then name Partido Popular (German: People's Party ) has been. It lost its license as a national party in 1997.

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The original Partido Popular (1948–1960)

Lombardo Toledanos, who was also the first chairman of the labor movement Confederación de Trabajadores de México (CTM), wanted to counter moderate and increasingly corrupt policies of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) by founding the Partido Popular . The Partido Popular was supported by railway associations and workers' associations from the mining and oil industries, but could not compete in the elections against the strong PRI. With the decision of the Marxist - Leninist orientation of the party politics, the name was changed to Partido Popular Socialista.

The Partido Popular Socialista (1961–1997)

With the ideological reorientation, the negative attitude of the PRI towards the party leadership of the PPS also decreased. The PPS was often criticized as a "loyal opposition", which led to a split of the left wing of the party and its rise to the Partido del Pueblo Mexicano (PPM). From 1989 the PPS increasingly lost votes, most of which went to the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD). After a further splitting of the PPS in 1997, the Partido Popular Socialista de México (PPSM) was re-established as the successor to Lombardo Toledano's party.

Today's Popular Socialista organization (since 1997)

The PPS itself lost its approval as a national party in 1997, but continues today as a political organization under the name Popular Socialista.

Party leader

Presidential candidacies

In 1952 Vicente Lombardo Toledano ran as a presidential candidate. In the six-yearly elections held from 1958 to 1988, the PPS entered electoral alliances without putting up its own candidate , up to and including 1982 with the PRI and PARM and in 1988 together with the PARM, the PFCRN , the PMS as " Frente Democrático Nacional ". In 1994 the PPS nominated Marcela Lombardo Otero as its candidate.

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