Partido de la Revolución Democrática
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The Partido de la Revolución Democrática ( PRD , Party of the Democratic Revolution) is one of the major parties in Mexico . It is considered to be moderately left .
It was founded in Mexico City on May 5, 1989 , a. a. by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano , Heberto Castillo, Gilberto Rincón Gallardo, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo and other left-wing politicians. It emerged from various oppositional groups and the initiatives of intellectuals. The PRD has been called the July 6th Party. On that day, the 1988 Mexican presidential election took place; As a candidate from a left alliance, Cárdenas had presumably won the election , but Carlos Salinas de Gortari became president due to election fraud . Cárdenas and some supporters had previously left the ruling state party PRI .
In the presidential elections on July 2, 2000, Cárdenas received 16.6% of the vote as a PRD candidate. Many left voters had voted for the conservative candidate Vicente Fox for tactical reasons, thus ending the more than 70-year rule of the PRI. In the simultaneous election to the Senate , the PRD took part in the Alliance for Mexico, which won 15 of the 128 seats in the Senate. In the election to the Mexican House of Representatives , the party received 17.6% of the vote or 95 of 500 seats.
The party is particularly well represented in the center and south of the country. She won the gubernatorial elections in the states of Guerrero , Chiapas , Michoacán , Zacatecas , Baja California Sur and in the capital district, in which she rules, since direct elections were introduced there in 1997. In the 2003 local elections, the PRD won 13 out of 16 constituencies in the capital district.
Former head of Mexico City's municipal government, Andrés Manuel López Obrador , was the party's candidate in the 2006 presidential election . He was considered one of the favorites, but was very narrowly defeated by his rival Felipe Calderón (PAN). López Obrador and the PRD accused Calderón of electoral fraud and did not recognize his victory. Instead, López Obrador described himself as the legitimate president of Mexico.
In the south of the country, the PRD base worked together with the Zapatistas for a long time and supported their establishment of autonomous administrative and supply structures. Recently, however, there have been more and more disagreements, since the leadership of the PRD does not fundamentally criticize the government's economic reforms, but only tries to cushion them socially. After the PRI was voted out of office, an increasing number of former PRI officials switched to the PRD at various levels, so that the local power structures that were built up by the PRI are now being continued in part by PRD officials.
With its commitment to more justice and openness in society and as the leftmost of the three big parties in Mexico, it still reaches a broad electorate.
