National Action Party (Mexico)

National Action Party
Partido Acción Nacional
PresidentMarko Cortés Mendoza
Secretary-GeneralNoemí Luna Ayala
Senate leaderJulen Rementería del Puerto
Chamber leaderJorge Romero Herrera
FounderManuel Gómez Morín
... and others[n 1]
Founded16 September 1939 (1939-09-16)
HeadquartersAv. Coyoacán No. 1546 Col. Del Valle, Benito Juárez, Mexico City
NewspaperLa Nación
Youth wingAcción Juvenil
MembershipIncrease 277,665 (2023 est.)[2]
IdeologyChristian humanism[3]
Conservatism[4]
Christian democracy[5]
Political positionCentre-right[6] to right-wing[7]
ReligionRoman Catholicism[8]
Electoral allianceFuerza y Corazón por México
International affiliationCentrist Democrat International
ODCA (Regional)
Colours  Blue   White
Anthem
"Himno de Acción Nacional"[9]
(lit.'Anthem of National Action')
Chamber of Deputies
114 / 500 (23%)
Senate
18 / 128 (14%)
Governorships
5 / 32 (16%)
State legislatures
214 / 1,113 (19%)
Mayors
312 / 2,043 (15%)
Website
pan.org.mx

The National Action Party (Spanish: Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) is a conservative political party in Mexico founded in 1939. The party is one of the main political parties in Mexico, and since the 1980s has had success winning local, state, and national elections.

In the historic 2000 Mexican general election, PAN candidate Vicente Fox was elected president, the first time in 71 years that the Mexican presidency was not held by the traditional ruling party, the PRI. Six years later, PAN candidate Felipe Calderón succeeded Fox following victory in the 2006 presidential election. In 2000–2012, PAN was the strongest party in both houses of the Congress of the Union (the federal legislature) but lacked a majority in either house. In the 2006 legislative elections, the party won 207 out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 52 out of 128 Senators. In the 2012 legislative elections, PAN won 38 seats in the Senate and 114 seats in the Chamber of Deputies,[10] but the party did not win the presidential election in 2012 or 2018. The members of this party are colloquially called Panistas.

Notoriously, the two Presidents of the Republic elected as PAN candidates (Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón) have both left the party. Fox supported Institutional Revolutionary Party presidential candidates in 2012 and 2018, while Calderón founded his own party named "México Libre".

  1. ^ "PAN - Partido Acción Nacional". N+ (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  2. ^ "Padrón de afiliados".
  3. ^ [1] («PAN, Poder e Iglesia»)
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  5. ^ Loaeza, Soledad (2003). "The Nationalist Action Party (PAN): From the Fringes of the Political System to the Heart of Change". In Mainwaring, Scott; Scully, Timothy R. (eds.). Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Regime Conflicts. Stanford University Press. p. 196. ISBN 0-8047-4598-6.
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  8. ^ Loaeza, Soledad (2003). "The National Action Party (PAN): From the Fringes of the Political System to the Heart of Change". In Mainwaring, Scott; Scully, Timothy R. (eds.). Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Regime Conflicts. Stanford University Press. p. 196. ISBN 0-8047-4598-6.
  9. ^ Morales, Antonio Lugo (8 March 2012). Los Partidos Políticos En México Y La Sucesión Presidencial Del Año 2012. Palibrio. p. 91. ISBN 978-1463322823. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  10. ^ Seelke, Claire. "Mexico's 2012 Elections" (PDF). Congressional Research Service.


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