Morena: Emergence and Consolidation of Left Parties in Mexico.
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Author(s)
Aguilar, Giancarlo
Date Issued
April 13, 2020
Abstract
On July 1st, 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the general elections in a historic election in modern Mexican history. This democratic process revealed a long history of the Mexican left in a country that is still considered in transition to liberal democracy. In this paper, I examine how left parties emerged in Mexico and what processes took place to consolidate these parties within the Mexican system. Through a comparative study between two left parties: The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Party of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), we see how the national context and the personality of the candidates can change the emergence and consolidation dynamics. Moreover, the most influential left leaders on the Mexican left are Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (PRD) and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (MORENA). Lastly, I conclude that the PRD demonstrated successful emergence during the Single-party system but did not reach consolidation during the transition to democracy period. On the other side, MORENA presents the same emergence characteristics of its predecessor, the PRD, and achieves partial consolidation in the Mexican party system.
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International Studies
First Reader(s)
Mattiace, Shannan
Other Reader(s)
Haywood, Kalé
Hernández, Wilfredo J.
Department
International Studies
Type of Publication
Senior Project Paper
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