National Action Party Jalisco is a state branch of the
National Action Party (Mexico)
The National Action Party ( es, Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) is a conservative political party in Mexico founded in 1939. The party is one of the four main List of political parties in Mexico, political parties in Mexico, and, since the 1980s, ...
, founded in
Jalisco
Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal En ...
in 1939 by Efrain González Luna. The National Action Party (Mexico) was founded in
Mexico City
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in 1939. González Luna had been an important leader of the Unión Nacional de Estudiantes Católicos (UNEC), a Jesuit-founded student group that had effectively opposed socialist education at the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
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(UNAM) in the early 1930s. Leaders of UNEC, along with the rector of UNAM,
Manuel Gómez Morín
Manuel Gómez Morín (27 February 1897 – 19 April 1972) was a Mexican politician. He was a founding member of the National Action Party, and one of its theoreticians. Prior to this he was considered a leading figure in Mexican monetary policy, ...
who had opposed socialist education went on to found the National Action Party in 1939. González Luna was a prolific writer, publishing on a variety of topics concerning political action and
Mexican Catholicism.
The Party is organized in district, municipal and state committees. Formerly, when the
PRI ruled over Mexico as a dominant party, like the axis of the Mexican political scheme, the PAN Jalisco was a truly opposition party, made up of urban professionals such as physicians, dentists, lawyers, accountants and small businesspeople. It had a unique democratic system to vote for party officials and leaders, as well as choosing who was considered the right candidates for general and midterm elections.
In 2008, it was the main political party of Jalisco: it controls politics in the State as it has won most of political spaces in public elections since 1995. Currently the State Governor, city majors of the capital area (
Guadalajara
Guadalajara ( , ) is a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the list of states of Mexico, state of Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 7th largest city by population in Me ...
,
Zapopan
Zapopan () is a city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, the population of Zapopan city proper makes it the second largest city in the state, very close behind the population of ...
,
Tonala and
Tlaquepaque
Tlaquepaque (), officially San Pedro Tlaquepaque, is a city and the surrounding municipality in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
Geography
During the 20th century, it was absorbed by the outward spread of the state capital, and is now a fully in ...
) and the majority of Congressmen come from this party.
History
In 1995, the party was described in the ''New York Times'' as a great challenge in Jalisco to the rule of President
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (; born 27 December 1951) is a Mexican economist and politician. He was 61st president of Mexico from 1 December 1994 to 30 November 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from t ...
.
After few years of finally gaining the main post of the state of Jalisco, the Governorship to Alberto Cárdenas in 1995,
the party began to lose some of its democratic credentials. In fact, with more elections won, most of newcomers within time won spaces in municipal administrations, Congress and even jobs in the State Governmental bodies.
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National Action Party (Mexico)
1939 establishments in Mexico