National Action Party (Mexico)
The Partido Acción Nacional ( PAN) is a Christian democratic and conservative party in Mexico. In addition to the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI ) and the Partido de la Revolución Democrática ( PRD) is one of the three major parties in Mexico.
The PAN was founded on September 16, 1939 in Mexico City, on the initiative of Manuel Gómez Morín, the first president of the PAN party, and presented with Felipe Calderón Hinojosa de Jesús 2006 to 2012 the President of Mexico. Other co-founders were Luis Calderón Vega, Efraín González Luna, Miguel Estrada Iturbide, Rafael Preciado Hernández, Juan Obregón Lander Reche, Gustavo Molina Font, Manuel Herrera y Lasso and Aquiles Elorduy. 1940 supported the PAN candidacy of Juan Andrew Almazan. After the PAN in 1948 got the approval as a national party, she put the first time in 1952 with Efraín González Luna its own presidential candidate.
The PAN is the first party, which succeeded to end the decades of PRI rule. 1983 won the PAN municipal election in 31 cities in northern Mexico. The first successes at the state level it achieved in 1989 in Baja California and in 1992 in Chihuahua, where she presented each the governor. In 2000 she worked with Vicente Fox Quesada for the first time the President. In the following years she was successful in other states, but suffered significant losses in 2004. Successor of Fox as President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa was that the 2006 election with 0.58% advantage could decide on the candidate of the PRD, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of its own. His term ended in 2012., The candidate of the PAN, Josefina Vázquez Mota, was unable to build on the successes of their predecessors in the presidential election in Mexico in 2012. New president was the PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto.