The New Alliance Party ( es, Partido Nueva Alianza, PNA or PANAL) is a state-level (previously national, until 2018) political party in

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founded in 2005. Its creation was proposed by the

Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación The National Educational Workers Union (, SNTE) is a trade union which represents teachers in Mexico. Its current Secretary-General and President is Alfonso Cepeda Salas. With over 1.4 million members, it is currently the largest teachers' un ...

(SNTE, National Union of Education Workers), the largest trade union in

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, led by

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, the controversial former general secretary of the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the Nati ...

(PRI).

History

The New Alliance Party achieved its official registry on July 14, 2005,https://nueva-alianza.org.mx/historia/ Retrieved Dec 16, 2018. three years after the SNTE created the Asociación Ciudadana del Magisterio (ACM, Citizen Association of Teachers), a political group recognized by the

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since August 2002. The creation of this party by the SNTE, a group that had traditionally supported the PRI in every election, caused accusations of

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for Gordillo. The party's president is Jorge Kahwagi. On 8 January 2006, the PNA elected Roberto Campa as its candidate for

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in the 2006 general elections. In the 2006 legislative elections the party won nine out of 500 seats in the

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and one out of 128 Senators. In the 2009 legislative elections the party lost one seat in the Chamber of Deputies, leaving it with eight seats. In the 2012 legislative elections, PANAL won 2 seats in the

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(an overall loss of 3), and 10 seats in the

(an overall gain of 3). The party logo distinctly resembles that of the now-defunct

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, a conservative party active from 2000 to 2003. The logo was provided by an ad agency, purported to resemble a dove. Despite the discovery of the logo's resemblance to that of the Canadian Alliance (leading one founding member of the party to express feeling "robbed"), it was nonetheless adopted. The party's 2012 presidential candidate, Gabriel Quadri, appeared in a wetsuit at his campaign launch, as did Canadian Alliance leader

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. In 2018, the party entered into coalition with the PRI and

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(PVEM) to support the nomination of

José Antonio Meade José Antonio Meade Kuribreña (; born 27 February 1969) is a Mexican politician, economist, lawyer, and diplomat. He served as a cabinet minister under Presidents Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto in a variety of portfolios, becoming the ...

. Meade finished a distant third behind

Andrés Manuel López Obrador Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican politician who has been serving as the 65th president of Mexico since 1 December 2018. He previously served as Head of Government of Mex ...

, but the results for New Alliance were worse. The party failed to attract three percent of the vote in all three elections for president, proportional representation federal deputies, and senators, which under Mexican law prompts the loss of its federal registry and the appointment of a liquidator by the INE to dispose of the party's assets. Nueva Alianza and the

Social Encounter Party Social Encounter Party ( es, Partido Encuentro Social, PES) was a Mexican conservative political party established on the national level in 2014 and dissolved in 2018. It was part of the coalition ''Juntos Haremos Historia'' with the National R ...

, the other party to lose its registry after the 2018 elections, challenged the result, to no avail. The PNA was officially dissolved at the national level on 3 September 2018, although it is still officially registered as a party in several individual states, and operates as a political organization in the others.

History

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Congressional elections

Chamber of Deputies

Senate elections

References

Further reading