Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Mexico
by Barry Wright
Essay: Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Mexico
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INTRODUCTION
From the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI) to the National Action Party (PAN) to the Party of Democratic
Revolution (PRD), Mexico has had many political parties in the past and present but many have questioned the
fact that how has PRI manage to stay in power and maintain its place as the dominant party in the past. In this
short research paper I am going to be talking about Partido Revolucionario Institutional (PRI) and Mexico. I want
to discuss the history of PRI and how it came about during and after the Mexican Revolution. I will also touch
upon the party’s weaknesses and precursors that might have signaled its loss in the elections of 2000.
The former political parties today in Mexico are the National Action Party (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI), Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Labor Party (PT), Ecologist green party of Mexico (PVEM), Citizens
movement (MC) and New Alliance. Although there are a lot of political parties in Mexico, In terms of their
congressional representation and share of the national vote, only PRI, PAN and the PRD can be considered major
parties. The minority political parties have played role in the success of the majority because they tend to support
one of the major political parties making it easier for voters to narrow their votes. This makes it easier for the
major parties to win electoral support from its citizens.
The PAN used to have the majority in the center and tends to be the right of center party along with being a
member of Christian Democracy. The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico or PVEM, a minor party with an
environmental platform has allied with the PAN before to elect the first non-PRI president in almost seven
decades but ever since it ha...