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The New Alliance Party (Spanish: Partido Nueva Alianza, PNA or PANAL) is a state-level (previously national, until 2018) political party in Mexico founded in 2005.[2][3]
New Alliance Party Partido Nueva Alianza | |
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| Leader | Luis Castro Obregón |
| Founder | Elba Esther Gordillo |
| Founded | 14 July 2005 |
| Dissolved | 3 September 2018 (at national level) |
| Split from | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| Headquarters | Durango núm. 199, Col. Roma, Deleg. Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City |
| Youth wing | Alianza Joven |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| National affiliation | Juntos Hacemos Historia[1] |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
| Continental affiliation | Liberal Network for Latin America |
| Colours | Turquoise |
| Seats in the Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 500 |
| Seats in the Senate | 0 / 128 |
| Governorships | 0 / 32
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| Mayors | 189 / 2,474
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| Seats in State legislatures | 42 / 1,124
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| Website | |
| www.nueva-alianza.org.mx | |
Its creation was proposed by the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE, National Union of Education Workers), the largest trade union in Latin America,[4][5] led by Elba Esther Gordillo, the controversial former general secretary of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).[6]
History
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The New Alliance Party achieved its official registry on July 14, 2005,[7] three years after the SNTE created the Asociación Ciudadana del Magisterio (ACM, Citizen Association of Teachers), a political group recognized by the Federal Electoral Institute since August 2002. The creation of this party by the SNTE, a group that had traditionally supported the PRI in every election, caused accusations of treason for Gordillo.
The party's president is Jorge Kahwagi. On 8 January 2006, the PNA elected Roberto Campa as its candidate for president in the 2006 general elections. In the 2006 legislative elections the party won nine out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one out of 128 Senators. In the 2009 legislative elections the party lost one seat in the Chamber of Deputies, leaving it with eight seats. In the 2012 legislative elections, PANAL won 2 seats in the Senate (an overall loss of 3), and 10 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (an overall gain of 3).[8]
The party logo distinctly resembles that of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance, a conservative party active from 2000 to 2003. The logo was provided by an ad agency, purported to resemble a dove.[7] Despite the discovery of the logo's resemblance to that of the Canadian Alliance (leading one founding member of the party to express feeling "robbed"), it was nonetheless adopted. The party's 2012 presidential candidate, Gabriel Quadri, appeared in a wetsuit at his campaign launch, as did Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day.[9]
In 2018, the party entered into coalition with the PRI and Green Party (PVEM) to support the nomination of José Antonio Meade.[10] Meade finished a distant third behind Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but the results for New Alliance were worse. The party failed to attract three percent of the vote in all three elections for president, proportional representation federal deputies, and senators, which under Mexican law prompts the loss of its federal registry and the appointment of a liquidator by the INE to dispose of the party's assets.[11] Nueva Alianza and the Social Encounter Party, the other party to lose its registry after the 2018 elections, challenged the result, to no avail. The PNA was officially dissolved at the national level on 3 September 2018,[12] although it is still officially registered as a party in several individual states, and operates as a political organization in the others.
Electoral history
editPresidential elections
edit| Election year | Candidate | # votes | % vote | Result | Note |
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| 2006 | Roberto Campa Cifrián | 401,804 | 0.96 |  Defeated
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| 2012 | Gabriel Quadri de la Torre | 1,146,085 | 2.34 | Defeated
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| 2018 | José Antonio Meade Kuribreña | 561,193 | 0.99 | Defeated
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Congressional elections
editChamber of Deputies
edit| Election year | Constituency | PR | # of seats | Position | Presidency | Note | |||
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| votes | % | votes | % | ||||||
| 2006 | 3,637,685 | 14.1 | 3,637,685 | 14.0 | 9 / 500
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Minority | Felipe Calderón | .svg){kind=logo}
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| 2009 | 1,181,850 | 3.4 | 1,186,876 | 3.4 | 8 / 500
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Minority | Felipe Calderón |
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| 2012 | 1,977,185 | 4.29 | 1,986,538 | 4.08 | 10 / 500
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Minority | Enrique Peña Nieto | .svg){kind=logo}
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| 2015 | 1,480,090 | 3.91 | 1,486,935 | 3.72 | 10 / 500
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Minority | Enrique Peña Nieto |
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| 2018 | 1,391,376 | 2.47 | 2 / 500
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Minority | Andrés Manuel López Obrador | .svg){kind=small}
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Senate elections
edit| Election year | Constituency | PR | # of seats | Position | Presidency | Note | |||
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| votes | % | votes | % | ||||||
| 2006 | 1,677,033 | 4.1 | 1,688,198 | 4.0 | 1 / 128
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Minority | Felipe Calderón |
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| 2012 | 1,796,816 | 3.9 | 1,855,403 | 3.9 | 1 / 128
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Minority | Enrique Peña Nieto |
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| 2018 | 1,307,015 | 2.31 | 1 / 128
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Minority | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
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References
edit- ^ "Morena y Nueva Alianza irán juntos en 2021 para mantener la mayoría en Diputados" [Morena and New Alliance will run together in 2021 to retain majority in Chamber of Deputies]. Expansión (in Spanish). 25 November 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
- ^ "Nueva Alianza se queda sin registro como partido político". www.eluniversal.com.mx. 21 November 2018. Retrieved Dec 16, 2018.
- ^ https://www.huffingtonpost.com.mx/2018/11/21/nueva-alianza-pierde-su-registro-como-partido_a_23596569/ Archived 2018-11-28 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved Dec 16, 2018
- ^ "El SNTE, de sindicato más poderoso de América Latina, a simple Tehuacán sin gas". libertadbajopalabra.com. 13 August 2017. Retrieved Dec 16, 2018.
- ^ "Considerado Como la Organización Sindical Más Grande de América Latina | PDF | Enrique Peña Nieto | Ciudad de México". www.scribd.com. Retrieved Dec 16, 2018.
- ^ "Partido Nueva Alianza, una vergüenza más para el sistema político mexicano". www.milenio.com. Retrieved Dec 16, 2018.
- ^ a b https://nueva-alianza.org.mx/historia/ Archived 2018-08-26 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved Dec 16, 2018.
- ^ Seelke, Claire. "Mexico's 2012 Elections" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- ^ "The Canadian Alliance in Mexico: Gabriel Quadri and his party making waves". The Star. 13 May 2012.
- ^ "La Jornada: Todos por México, nombre de la alianza que apoya a Meade". www.jornada.com.mx. 23 January 2018. Retrieved Dec 16, 2018.
- ^ "Panal y PES pierden registro; INE inicia proceso de liquidación". El Sol de México. 9 July 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- ^ "INE aprueba pérdida de registro de Nueva Alianza y Encuentro Social". El Economista. 3 September 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
Further reading
editPanal history (in Spanish) Retrieved Dec 16, 2018
- "El SNTE y su nuevo partido politico" (in Spanish). Observatorio Ciudadano de la Educación. Archived from the original on 19 November 2008.
- "Mexico's new political player". ¡Adelante!. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.