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pri of mexico

The PRI , or Partido Revolucionario Institucional , was Mexico dominant ruling party for 71 years , after which it was defeated at the polls by the National Action Party (PAIN . The PAIN presidential candidate Vicente Fox , beat the PRI candidate , Francisco Labastida , in the presidential election to become the first President that came from a party other than the PRI in Mexico 's modern history

The PRI is considered one of the most singular political phenomena of the twentieth century , and a cornerstone of presidential power for more than 6 decades . It was founded

as an organ of the Mexican state in 1929 by the incumbent office-holders , and dominated Mexico political life and system , which was once characterized by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas-Llosa as the perfect dictatorship

Unlike most other political parties in the world , the PRI was not created nor functioned as an orthodox political party which aims to control governance . Rather , the PRI was formed to help keep a leadership in power , within which successors to current Presidents are selected internally . This will be further discussed in detail later

Since its inception , it has had three avatars , namely the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (1928-38 , Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana (1938-1946 ) and the present-day PRI . Since its name change in 1946 , the PRI 's candidates have won in all nine presidential elections , never once losing the majority in the Mexican legislature , despite an increasingly strong opposition , until its defeat at the hands of Vicente Fox and PAIN

Before that , it governed virtually unchallenged in regular six year cycles and regularly won in excess of 85 percent of the addition , before 1988 , the PRI had never lost a gubernatorial or federal senatorial race it had contested since the formation of the PNR in 1929 As such , the Mexico of the 1960s and 1970s was often called a hegemonic party system , distinct from the single party states of the communist former Soviet bloc , since opposition parties existed legally and politically , although they were crippled and ineffective

As the PRI was built by victorious revolutionaries and viewed as the party (as a singular entity together with the PRM and PNR ) that brought land reform , labor rights and economic development , the PRI possessed a strong revolutionary heritage , which contributed significantly to its continued hegemony . Exercising a monopoly on the elected executive positions at the federal , state and local levels , the PRI had easy access to govern mental resources that made clientelism (personal relationships that link patrols and clients together in a system in which jobs , favors and protection are exchanged for labor , support and loyalty ) relatively easy , particularly in a state with an extensive bureaucracy

Formally launched on the 18th to the 20th of January , 1946 , during the second national assembly of the PRM , it evolved as the PRM moved to assume a new name and platform after numerous attacks following the electoral fraud of 1940 under the administration of Manuel Avila Camacho (1940-46 . There was considerable continuity between the PRM and the PRI during the...

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