PRI (Mexico)
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Institutional Revolutionary Party
Partido Revolucionario Institucional |
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| President | Enrique Ochoa Reza |
| General Secretary | Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas |
| Founded | by Plutarco Elías Calles March 4, 1929 as (PNR) by Lázaro Cárdenas March 30, 1938 as (PRM) by Manuel Ávila Camacho January 18, 1946 as (PRI) |
| Preceded by | (1929–1938) (1938–1946) |
| Headquarters | 59 Avenida Insurgentes Av. Insurgentes N. col. Buenavista delegación Cuauhtémoc México City, Federal District, Mexico, 06359 |
| Newspaper | La República |
| Youth wing | Red Jóvenes x México |
| Ideology |
Social democracy Civic nationalism Corporatism |
| Political position | Centre |
| Continental affiliation | COPPPAL |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
| Colours | Green, white, red |
| Seats in the Chamber of Deputies |
206 / 500
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| Seats in the Senate |
55 / 128
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| Governorships |
15 / 32
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The Institutional Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) is a Mexican political party founded in 1929, that held power uninterruptedly in the country for 71 years from 1929 to 2000, first as the National Revolutionary Party, then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution.
Though it is a full member of the Socialist International, the PRI is not considered a social democratic party in the traditional sense; its modern policies have been characterized as centrist. Its membership in the Socialist International dates from 1996. Along with its rival, the left-wing PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution), they make Mexico one of the few nations with two major, competing parties part of the same international grouping. The PRI is the largest political party in Mexico according to membership.
The adherents of the PRI party are known in Mexico as priístas and the party is nicknamed el tricolor because of its use of the colors green, white and red.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party is described by some scholars as a "state party", a term which captures both the non-competitive history and character of the party itself, and the inextricable connection between the party and the Mexican nation-state for much of the 20th century. The current president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, is a member of the PRI.
At first glance, the PRI's name looks like a confusing oxymoron or paradox to English speakers since they normally associate the term "revolution" with the destruction of "institutions." As Rubén Gallo has explained, the Mexican concept of institutionalizing the Revolution simply refers to the corporatist nature of the PRI—that is, the PRI subsumed the "disruptive energy" of the Revolution (and thereby ensured its own longevity) by co-opting and incorporating its enemies into its bureaucratic government as new institutional sectors.
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