The Socialist Mexican Party (, PMS) was a left-wing Mexican political party, and one of the immediate antecedents of the present

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. It was the last effort to unify the different Mexican left-wing parties, as well as the last political party in the country to officially used the word "socialist" in its name. It existed between 1987 and 1989. The PMS was founded in 1987 through the merger of the

Unified Socialist Party of Mexico The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico ( es, Partido Socialista Unificado de México, PSUM) was a socialist political party in Mexico. It later became the Socialist Mexican Party () in 1988. History The PSUM was founded in November 1981 by the me ...

, the Mexican Workers' Party, the Communist Leftist Union, the People's Revolutionary Movement and the Revolutionary Patriotic Party.González Casanova, Pablo, and Jorge Cadena Roa.
Primer informe sobre la democracia, México 1988
'. Biblioteca México. México, D.F.: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1989. p. 318 The party participated solely in the 1988 elections, in which it had postulated

Heberto Castillo Heberto Castillo Martínez (August 23, 1928 – April 5, 1997) was a Mexican civil engineer and political activist. Castillo was born in Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, and received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National ...

as its candidate. A month before the elections, Castillo decided to decline his candidacy in favor of

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano Cuauhtémoc (, ), also known as Cuauhtemotzín, Guatimozín, or Guatémoc, was the Aztec ruler (''tlatoani'') of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521, making him the last Aztec Emperor. The name Cuauhtemōc means "one who has descended like an eagle" ...

and integrate himself in the National Democratic Front that postulated Cárdenas to the Presidency of the Republic. In 1989, after the electoral process had finished, the PMS integrated with the old Democratic Current of the PRI and constituted the

, with the own legal registry of the PMS.

PMS candidates for the Presidency

* 1988:

(declined) * 1994:

(allied with PPS,

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and PFCRN to form National Democratic Front)

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PMS candidates for the Presidency

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