Question to All International Forum Members

[ThePrezMex]

I don't know if you could fit in any party in Mexico, maybe it would be easier for WMS.

We have three main political parties:
-National Action Party (PAN) which is the party of current President Fox. They are part of the International Christian Democrat Organization or whatever it is called. They are very conservative on social issues, very very close to the Catholic Church (hence, I really don't know of any Jew being a member of that party). It is an interesting fact that they have really few women as candidates or senators or in congress. On economic issues they were pro free market and free trade for many decades, since they were close to the business sector as well. But when President Salinas (1988-94) and President Zedillo after him basically started applying most of the economic platform that PAN had advocated for years, they basically ran out of ideas and they don't have a clue of what to do now - they are basically becoming some sort of populists. They have proved to be quite incompetent.

- Democratic Revolution Party (PRD): Actually, none of you would be members or voters of this party. Is the leftist party in Mexico. They always fight among each others because it is formed by the old style socialist and communist parties (although a real communist party never existed in Mexico) and by disaffected members of the PRI that decided to get out of the party when Presidents Salinas and Zedillo pushed for the free market reforms. They are very liberal socially as well: pro abortion, pro gay rights. And left on economics, but they are not rabid looney leftists though, more of an european social democratic style.

- the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which ruled Mexico for 71 years until they lost the Presidency in 2000. Everyone fits in here, because it is an umbrella party (very similar in style to the Congress Party of India). You have a wide spectrum of ideologies here, from strong free marketeers to old style union leaders, from business sector leaders to corporatist agrarian organizations. You have the most intelligent and prepared technocrats and the worst and most vicious old style Tammny Hall deal makers. Ideology doesn't matter that much in this party, power does.

[ThePrezMex]

Given your political compass score maybe the PRI or PAN

We also have other small parties:

- Green Party - They were originally an environmentalist party as any other greens, but not anymore. Actually, the least in which they are interested is in the environment. It is basically a party 'owned' by one family that just tries to make alliances in different states with either PRI or PAN depending which one offers more $$

- Democratic Convergence Party - An emerging center-left party, basically aiming to middle urban classes. Still small. Could be something similar to the Freedom Party of the Fantasy Elections (eh.. I found were WMS fits).