Die kleinen politischen Parteien Mexikos - Besprechungsaufsatz

In relationship to the ruling ubiquitous PRI - Institutional Revolutionary Party - all of the other parties in Mexico are substantielly of no relevant importance. There are three groups of these parties: The principal legal opposition party, the PAN - National Action Party -; the other legally registered parties and nowadays the new or recently registered parties. The 1939 founded conservative Catholic PAN has had no real chance to win elections in the former majority'system, but it contributes to the very facade of democracy which the PRI wished to perpetuate. The PPS - Popular Socialist Party -, founded by the Marxist intellectual Lombardo Toledano 1947 is no better than a satellite party of the PRI on the left of the political spectrum. Like its so-called leftist counterpart the slightly right-of-center PARM - Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution - is an appendage of the PRI. The constitutional and electoral reform of 1977 establishing a combined system of majority and proportional representation allowed the registration of the Communist Party - PCM - and the foundation of some new »Workers Parties « on the left and of the PDM - Mexican Democratic Party - on the right. The electoral reform produces no more political mobilisation but an abstention about 50 percent in the elections of 1979, therefore the real counterpart of ruling PRI is the party of non-voters. A change to more voting we will have in 1982 for the presidential elections. Candidate of PRI and therefore very presumable next Mexican president 1982-1988 is Miguel de la Madrid.