Mexico
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Corporatism / centrism
Governed Mexico continuously for seventy-one years, a period described by Vargas Llosa as the perfect dictatorship. Now a diminished centrist party of pragmatic technocracy.
- Founded
- 1929
- Positions as of
- 2024 electoral platform
- Last verified
What does it believe?
The state in the economy
Opened the oil sector to private investment in the 2013 energy reform, reversing a nationalisation the party itself had carried out in 1938.
Power and its limits
Organised society into state-linked corporate sectors of labour, peasants and business during its long period in power.
Where it sits on each dimension
Wealth and inequality
Evidence: Documented
The state in the economy
Evidence: Documented
Nation and the world
Evidence: Documented
Power and its limits
Evidence: Documented
Sources
Sources are prioritised in this order: official manifestos, official party documents, parliamentary records, academic research, then high-quality reporting.
- Programa de Acción · Partido Revolucionario Institucional
- Plataforma Electoral · Partido Revolucionario Institucional · 2024
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