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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction
| native_name      = Partido Frente Cardenista de Reconstrucción Nacional
| native_name_lang = es
| abbreviation     = PFCRN
| predecessor      = {{langx|es|text=Unión de Ejidos Majomut|label=none}}<br/>[[Workers' Socialist Party (Mexico)]]
| successor        = [[Socialist Party of Mexico]]
| newspaper        = Cardenista Insurgency
| position         = [[Left-wing]]
| foundation       = {{Start date|1987|df=y}}{{efn-ua|The Party was refounded in the 2010s.}}
| dissolution      = 1997 (National Level)<br/>2022 (Local Level)
| leader           = [[Rafael Aguilar Talamantes]]
| country          = Mexico
| logo             = PFCRN Logo.svg
| ideology         = [[Lázaro Cárdenas|Cardenismo]]<br>[[Socialism]]
| headquarters     = Av. Flores Magon, [[Mexico City]]
| logo_size        = 200
| colorcode        = {{party color|Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction}}
}}
The '''Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction''' ({{langx|es|text='''Partido Frente Cardenista de Reconstrucción Nacional'''}}; '''PFCRN''') also known as '''Cardenista Party''' during 1996-1997 was a [[list of political parties in Mexico|Mexican political party]] that arose during the 1989 elections, having evolved from the coffee [[cooperative federation|cooperative]] {{langx|es|text=Unión de Ejidos Majomut|label=none}}.<ref name="2003 Mayan Lives">{{cite book |last1=Eber |first1=Christine |title=Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |year=2003 |isbn=0-7425-1148-0 |editor1-last=Rus |editor1-first=Jan |location=[[Lanham, Maryland]] |language=en |chapter=Buscando una nueva vida: Liberation through Autonomy in San Pedro Chenalhó |editor2-last=Hernández Castillo |editor2-first=Rosalva Aída |editor3-last=Mattiace |editor3-first=Shannan}}</ref>
The PFCRN won 38 pronominal seats in the Chamber of Deputies during their first [[1988 Mexican general election|elections in 1988]] in part with the [[National Democratic Front (Mexico)|National Democratic Front]] with the [[Party of the Democratic Revolution]] along with other left-wing parties.
== Initial history and life as a political party ==
=== Background ===
The PFCRN has its origins dating back when the then-[[Workers' Socialist Party (Mexico)|Workers' Socialist Party]]  (PST) was experiencing major internal political problems, causing members of the PST to split politically.
Many members eventually defected and laid the groundwork for a new political party, particularly former PST leader [[Rafael Aguilar Talamantes|Rafael Anguilar Talamantes]] and the cooperative Unión de Ejidos Majomut, which was founded in 1979 by Protestants and coffee corporatives in Chiapas to oppose the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] and support a campesino candidate backed by the ''Organización Regional Indigena de los Altos de Chiapas'' in [[Chenalhó|Chenalho]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Mayan lives, Mayan utopias: the indigenous peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista rebellion |date=2003 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-7425-1148-4 |editor-last=Rus |editor-first=Jan |series=Latin American perspectives in the classroom |location=Lanham, MD}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Solís |first=Daniel Villafuerte |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzQqbUB7MrMC&q=Uni%C3%B3n+de+Ejidos+Majomut&pg=PA345 |title=La tierra en Chiapas, viejos problemas nuevos |date=1999-01-01 |publisher=Plaza y Valdes |isbn=978-968-856-727-2 |language=es}}</ref> A decade later, during 1987, members of the Ejidos Majomut merged with former PST members and other small left-wing organizations to form the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rus |first1=Jan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mcjBAAAAQBAJ&dq=Uni%C3%B3n+de+Ejidos+Majomut+frente+cardenista&pg=PA141 |title=Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion |last2=Castillo |first2=Rosalva Aída Hernández |last3=Mattiace |first3=Shannan L. |date=2003-09-03 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-1-4616-4005-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Moksnes |first=Heidi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZN49qm2yMgMC&dq=Partido+Frente+Cardenista+de+Reconstrucci%C3%B3n+Nacional&pg=PA2005 |title=Maya Exodus: Indigenous Struggle for Citizenship in Chiapas |date=2013-07-29 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-5036-9 |language=en}}</ref>
=== 1988 elections ===
For the [[1988 Mexican general election|1988 federal elections]], the PFCRN joined the [[National Democratic Front (Mexico)|National Democratic Front]], nominating [[Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas|Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano]] as a candidate for the Presidency. Among the parties that supported the candidacy of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the PFCRN was the one that capitalized on the greatest number of votes (9.37%) and managed to earn 38 seats in the chamber of deputies in the coalition [[National Democratic Front (Mexico)|National Democratic Front]]. This had the consequence that its candidates occupied the majority of the deputies that were recognized to the left alliance at that time [[LIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress|LIV Legislature]].
=== Decline and dissolution ===
[[File:Partido Cardenista (PC) 1997.jpg |right|thumb|Cardenista Party official logo, 1996-1997|245x245px]]
After the following [[1994 Mexican general election|Federal elections in 1994]], the party obtained less than 1% of the votes. Three years later In 1997, the PFCRN attempted to restructure its image by adopting a simpler name, the '''Cardenista Party (PC)''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: '''''Partido Cardenista'''; '''PC''')''  In that year, the PFCRN participated in the first elections for Head of Government of the Federal District and nominating the well-known journalist, [[Pedro Ferriz Santacruz|Pedro Ferriz Santa Cruz]] as candidate. After another electoral failure in the [[1997 Mexican legislative election]] after it failed to secure 2.0% of the total votes, the Cardenista Party lost its registration definitively and dissolved later that year.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-07-13 |title=El maestro de la traición y su legado |url=http://elcorreodeoaxaca.com/81/art05.html |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713012652/http://elcorreodeoaxaca.com/81/art05.html |archive-date=2012-07-13 }}</ref>
=== State political party ===
The Cardenista Party re-emerged and obtained its registration as a state political party in Veracruz in 2013. In that state, it participated in the 2013 state elections and despite obtaining 88,267 votes (2.77%) it managed to earn 3 mayoralties ([[Coahuitlán]], [[Úrsulo Galván|Ursulo Galván]] and [[Vega de Alatorre]]) and 1 multi-member council, thus preserving its registration. For the 2016 elections he was part of the '''Coalition to Improve Veracruz''' together with the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party|PRI]], [[Ecologist Green Party of Mexico|PVEM]], [[New Alliance Party (Mexico)|PANAL]] and Alternativa Veracruzana which nominated PRI senator [[Héctor Yunes Landa]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yunes Landa, atento a cómputo final de OPLE |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/06/8/yunes-landa-atento-computo-final-de-ople/ |access-date=2023-10-17 |website=El Universal |language=es}}</ref> However, the Cardenista Party was not part of the same coalition for the election of deputies, choosing its own candidates independently. Despite the Alliance with the PRI, the Cardenista Party lost its state registration by obtaining 39,556 votes (1.30%), which was less than the 3% required to maintain the party.<ref>{{Cite web |title=OPLE Veracruz dará doble liquidación al Partido Cardenista por no eliminarlo en 2016 {{!}} Diario del istmo |url=https://diariodelistmo.com/amp/estatal/ople-veracruz-dara-doble-liquidacion-al-partido-cardenista-por-no-eliminarlo-en-2016/50119536 |access-date=2023-10-17 |website=diariodelistmo.com}}</ref>
==== Municipal political party ====
The party renewed itself during the Veracruz Local Elections in 2021. However, it received 27,360 votes, which was less than the 3% needed to maintain its status as a state party. As a result, it was dissolved in January 2022 as a state political party.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=alcalorpolitico.com |title=OPLE oficializa pérdida de registro de cuatro partidos políticos locales |url=https://www.alcalorpolitico.com/informacion/ople-oficializa-perdida-de-registro-de-cuatro-partidos-politicos-locales-361591.html |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=Al Calor PolÃƒÂtico |language=es}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Meganoticias |title=Cuatro partidos políticos perdieron su registro ante el OPLE |url=https://www.meganoticias.mx/los-cabos/noticia/cuatro-partidos-politicos-perdieron-su-registro-ante-el-ople/302467 |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=MEGANOTICIAS |language=es-MX}}</ref> However, the PC remains a municipal party, having won the mayoralty of [[Oteapan]] following the election, serving from 2021 to 2024.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
== Ideology ==
According to what is said in its statutes, the PFCRN would also have its foundation from the political and ideological thought of former president [[Lázaro Cárdenas]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
== Party presidents ==
* (1987–1997): [[Rafael Aguilar Talamantes]]
== Presidential candidates of Mexico ==
* (1988): [[Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas|Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano]]
* (1994): [[Rafael Aguilar Talamantes]]
== Notes ==
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== References ==
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[[Category:Defunct political parties in Mexico]]
[[Category:Socialist parties in Mexico]]