Andrés Manuel López Obrador won Mexico's presidency as the candidate of MORENA, the political party he founded in 2014. To build an electoral coalition that could beat Mexico's two mainstream parties, the PRI and the PAN, MORENA joined forces with several other small parties.
Name in English | Name in Spanish | Political Leaning | Founded | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) | Partido Revolucionario Institucional | Non-ideological/ Centrist | 1946-757382400000 | Party of the current president, Enrique Peña Nieto. Ruled Mexico uncontested for most of the 20th century. |
| National Action Party (PAN) | Partido de Accion Nacional | Right | 1939-978307200000 | Defeated the PRI for the presidency in 2000 and 2006. Supports free market economics, business interests and the social doctrine of the Catholic Church. |
| Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) | Partido Revolucionario Democratico | Center-left | 1989599616000000 | Formed by a breakaway left-wing faction of the PRI after the party allegedly rigged Mexico's 1988 general election. President-elect López Obrador ran for president twice as a PRD candidate. |
| National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) | Movimiento Regeneración Nacional | Left | 20141388534400000 | López Obrador created MORENA in 2012 after becoming disenchanted with the PRD. Launched officially as a party in 2014. Won victory in 2018 with promises to govern for the poor. |
| Social Encounter Party (PES) | Partido Encuentro Social | Far right | 20061136073600000 | Evangelical, anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion. Officially decertified in July 2018 for failing to obtain enough votes but retained legislative seats after allying with MORENA. |
| Labor Party (PT) | Partido de Trabajores | Far left | 1990631152000000 | The PT's founders, a collective of Maoist activists, revere the Chinese Communist Party. Allied with MORENA. |
