Party of the Democratic Revolution
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Party of the Democratic Revolution
Partido de la Revolución Democrática |
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| President | Alejandra Barrales |
| Secretary | Héctor Miguel Bautista López |
| Founded | 5 May 1989 |
| Split from | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| Headquarters | Mexico City |
| Ideology |
Democratic socialism, Cardenism, Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left to Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Broad Progressive Front |
| Continental affiliation | Foro de São Paulo,COPPPAL |
| International affiliation |
Progressive Alliance, Socialist International |
| Colours | Yellow and Black |
| Seats in the Chamber of Deputies |
61 / 500
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| Seats in the Senate |
19 / 128
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| Governorships |
4 / 32
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| Website | |
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The Party of the Democratic Revolution (Spanish: Partido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD) is a social democratic political party in Mexico. The PRD is one of the three major political parties in Mexico, the others being the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) and the National Action Party (Partido Accion Nacional, PAN).
The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 1986 from the PRI Party. The PRD was formed after the 1988 electoral fraud which sparked a movement away from the authoritarian rule of the PRI. Today, the PRD is a member of the Broad Progressive Front alliance and one of two Mexican full members of the Socialist International, the other one being the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
The PRD has its origins with the leftists members of the PRI, Institutional Revolutionary Party. The PRI had dominated Mexican politics since its founding in 1929. In 1986, three PRI members – Rodolfo González Guevara, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas – formed the Democratic Current, a political faction within the PRI. The Democratic Current aimed to pressure the PRI to become a more democratic party and to address the issue of national debt including the social effects of the economic crisis that came from attempting to pay that debt. The Democratic Current was also against technocratization, in which the people in power had not held public office and were scholars that were often educated abroad. Under the Miguel de la Madrid presidency which lasted from 1982-1988, the PRI and Mexico were moving towards a technocracy especially since de la Madrid was a technocrat himself. The Democratic Current did not have many technocrats and was thus left out of the decision making process. This political marginalization led the Democratic Current members to be more vocal about their concerns because they did not have a position of power to protect within the PRI.
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