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Mexico & Nafta - June 2018 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Coalitions and the future of democratic stability in Mexico
Political plurality has significantly increased in Mexico over the last forty years. In the 1978 presidential election, opposition parties did not register a candidate and the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) candidate, José López Portillo, ran unopposed. Sixteen years later in the 1994 presidential election, nine candidates were registered with all of them being nominated by a single party. Nevertheless, three of the country’s main political parties, the traditional PRI, the centre-right Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), and the leftist Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) concentrated 90% of the total vote.
