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Political Organisation of Mexican Left Parties (PRD-MORENA): The Speech, Actions, and Ideological Principles of the Left-Party Presidential Candidates in Mexico During the Mexican Political Transition

Democracy
Elections
Interest Groups
Political Competition
Political Participation
Political Parties
Campaign
Identity

Abstract

This research paper explores the electoral and party reforms and the relationship of congruence between speech, actions, and ideological principles of the left-party presidential candidates in Mexico during the Mexican political transition: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (2000) and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AMLO (2012), both from PRD. The objective is to determine a possible interpretation of the election results and the respective regulations’ influence, as well as the candidates’ respective arguments faced with defeat. The period best known as the Mexican political transition started in 2000, when the center-left party in power for seven decades, PRI, lost the presidential election for the first time and turned over the Executive branch to conservative party PAN; and continues today, after the 2006 election, in which PAN won again, while the leftist party PRD argued there had been a fraud; and the 2012 election, in which PRI won the presidential elections once again. This period has come with very important changes to both electoral and party regulations. We seek to answer how the left parties respond to increasing state regulation and if tensions are arising as the result of this. The leftist party, PRD, especially in the last two elections, has been the conflicting one during this period. During this period, the Mexican left has relied on civil society and civil society organizations as tools of political resistance. Mexican democracy remains indeterminate and never able to settle legitimacy issues. Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (MORENA) is a political movement created as a civil association in 2006. It’s based on defending and reconstructing electoral legitimacy in Mexico, after what they and their proponents called “the 2006 electoral fraud”. This organization has served Andrés Manuel López Obrador to keep a permanent political campaign across the country.