Mexican Democratic Party
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The Mexican Democratic Party (Partido Demócrata Mexicano PDM in Spanish) was an ultra-Catholic social conservative political party in Mexico that existed between 1979 and 1997.
The PDM had their origin in right elements and originating by the Catholics and the clerical fascist National Synarchist Union, who fought openly against Anti-Catholic articles of the Constitution of 1917, particularly in the states of Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Querétaro, Guanajuato and Michoacán, the states in which the Cristero War was fought from 1926 to 1929. It was in this zone during 80's where it obtained his greater electoral presence, prevailing in several important municipalities like Lagos de Moreno in Jalisco or the city of Guanajuato.
In the Presidential Elections of 1988 the party started to lose support. In the Presidential Elections of 1994, during which the party supported the candidature of Pablo Emilio Madero and was renamed National Opposition Union (UNO) after having joined with several small conservative organizations, the party lost its registry. It again recovered it in 1996, but in the 1997 elections, it lost its registry again.
Many of their militants conformed in 1999 the new Social Alliance Party, that did not obtain political presence in the country either.
[edit] PDM Presidents
- Ignacio González Golláz
- Víctor Atilano Gómez
- Mariano Gaxiola
[edit] PDM candidates
- (1982): Ignacio González Golláz
- (1988): Gumersindo Magaña
- (1994): Pablo Emilio Madero
