National Democratic Front (Mexico) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Democratic Front (Spanish: Frente Democrtico Nacional) was a coalition of left-wing Mexican political parties created in 1988 presidential elections, and that is the immediate antecedent of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. It was result of an agglutination of small political left and center-left forces with a dissident members of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The candidate was Cuauhtmoc Crdenas. The National Democratic Front had its origins in the PRI, where the Democratic Current, headed by Cuauhtmoc Crdenas, Porfirio Muoz Ledo, Csar Buenrostro, Ifigenia Martnez, among others, in 1987, tried, among other things, to democratize the internal election in the PRI. Finally after Carlos Salinas de Gortari was nominated the official candidate of the PRI by outgoing president Miguel de la Madrid, the members of the Democratic Current broke from the PRI, looking for a party to support Crdenas' presidential candidacy.