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or PRI. The founders of the short-lived party included its first and only presidential candidate,

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, who ran under the Federation banner in 1952. He was joined with his brother, the entrepreneur Jorge Henríquez Guzmán, and other high-ranking members of the PRI such as José Muñoz Cota, to create a break-away party of former PRI activists, which they called the Federation of the Mexican People's Parties. Prominent members in this new party included other former generals from the Mexican Revolution such as

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, as well as other political parties such as the Partido Constitucionalista Mexicano (Mexican Constitutionalist Party) led by Francisco J. Mújica. The result was a broad alliance of political, pro-agrarian reform, and social organizations that represented a serious challenge to the practice of presidential succession under the period of PRI domination from 1940 to 1988.

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{{Reflist Defunct political party alliances in Mexico Political organizations based in Mexico 1951 establishments in Mexico