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	USATODAY.com - Mexico's largest leftist party wins key election in Pacific coast state (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Democratic Revolution's campaign coordinator, Julio Ortega, virtually accused the PRI of murder, saying the attack was part of the party's campaign to intimidate voters.
		Democratic Revolution city officials ordered 52 gasoline stations closed, alleging they owed taxes, but critics claimed they were trying to keep the PRI from using taxis to haul voters to distant polls.
		Democratic Revolution's Narciso Agundez was competing with Rodimiro Amaya of the PRI in Baja California Sur.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-02-06-mexico-election_x.htm (702 words)

	At a Hopeful Moment, Feud Tears at Mexico's Left
		Cardenas' own party will not select its candidate until sometime this fall, so its rank-and-file members were treated to the uncomfortable spectacle of their maximum leader raising the victory salute at the convention of another organization.
		The Party of the Democratic Revolution was cobbled together out of leftist factions that Cardenas could unite by the force of his great personal prestige as the son of the most fondly remembered former president, Lazaro Cardenas.
		The party celebrated its 10th anniversary on May 5, and all the press showed the next day were pictures of the two scowling men turning their backs on each other.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~poli354/Mexico_pages/990715_Mexico_Ledo.html (1136 words)

	CNS STORY: Mexico's Democratic Revolution Party takes protests to the pulpit
		Lopez Obrador's Democratic Revolution Party is one of the most secular-oriented parties in Mexico and regularly questions church involvement in politics.
		Party leaders said members should be free to express their politics during church services and accused the National Action Party of trying to corner the political market on religion.
		Democratic Revolution Party officials have criticized the National Action Party for prominently placing images of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint, around party headquarters during victory celebrations on election night.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0604823.htm (758 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - "Zapatista strongholds attacked in southern Mexico "
		The attack, which authorities in Che Guevara claimed was organized by leaders from the Democratic Revolution Party, destroyed a mural in the central square, ransacked a general store and blocked the main highway so that police reinforcements couldn't arrive.
		Democratic Revolution party leaders helped organize both protests in an attempt to undermine the support for Zapatista rebels, said Abilino Arcos, a spokesman for police in Che Guevara.
		Arcos said many supporters of the staunchly liberal party known as the PRD abandoned the faction in favor of the Zapatista movement, triggering an often violent feud between the rebels and remaining PRD supporters.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID5/7705.html (527 words)

	Mexico Moving Toward Two-Party System, Mexican Presidential, Congressional Elections Move Country Toward Two-Party ...
		Democratic Revolution has said it is firmly against Calderon's plans to overhaul tax, energy and labor laws, which the conservative says are necessary to modernize the economy.
		Democratic Revolution activists are confident of winning over most PRI supporters, who they say will abandon their decaying party.
		While Democratic Revolution may not win the presidency, its congressional gains are an important development in a region that has elected a string of leftist governments, said historian Lorenzo Meyer.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/07/10/ap/world/mainD8IPBFNO7.shtml (865 words)

	ALERT - Vol. 2, No. 14
		Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) won the election for mayor of Mexico City held on July 6, while the PRD nationally succeeded in becoming the second most important political party in the Mexican Congress.
		At the same time the PRD is a Latin American populist party, a party which represents and makes concessions to popular movements of the middle class, labor and the peasantry, but at the same time remains a traditional political party.
		The PRD, then is not precisely a party of capital such as the Democratic or Republican Party in the United States, nor is it exactly a Social Democratic Party along the European model (despite its membership in the Socialist International).
	www.ueinternational.org /vol2no14.html (4889 words)

	americas.org - Leftist Wins Party Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On March 24, Rosario Robles Berlanga was declared the winner of March 17 elections for president of the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
		Party militants thought to be Ortega supporters stormed some polling stations and took hundreds of blank ballots.
		PRD leaders admitted that the election was not clean, but noted that at least 100 individuals who engaged in illegal practices would be suspended from the party.
	www.americas.org /item_10447 (196 words)

	The Democratic Party
		The Democratic Governors’ Association was founded in 1983 to support the candidacy of Democratic governors throughout the nation.
		The State Democratic Parties work to elect local, state, and federal candidates in their states, as well as supporting the state campaign for the Democratic presidential nominee.
		Democrats this year had three full-time staffers paid for through the 2008 election as part of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean’s nationwide party-building plan.
	www.democrats.org /a/party/ourorganization.html (381 words)

	Democratic Party
		The Republican Party was established at Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854 by a group of former members of the Whig Party and the Free-Soil Party.
		In his cartoons the Democratic Party was a donkey and the Republican Party, an elephant.
		The Democratic Party derived its strength originally from its adoption of the principles of equal and exact justice to all men.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAdemocratic.htm (1417 words)

	Elections Seen as Early Test for Zedillo's Party
		The opposition vote in Durango was split among three parties, one of which the PRI has funded in the past as a way of dividing its competitors.
		In Zacatecas, a mining center on Durango's southern border, the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, was leading in early returns, according to the Azteca exit poll.
		Maria Esther Orozco, 53, an award-winning biologist who represented the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, was backed by 7 percent of the voters in Chihuahua, according to the Norte pre-election poll.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~poli354/Mexico_pages/980706_Mexico_elect.html (974 words)

	Democratic Revolution Wins Mexican Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Two other state elections Sunday went as predicted: Democratic Revolution held on to the governorship of Baja California Sur, where the resorts of Los Cabos are located, while the PRI held on to Quintana Roo, the site of Cancun.
		Guerrero was an unusually emotion-filled victory for Democratic Revolution, which was born in 1989 out of merger of leftist parties and PRI dissidents.
		Democratic Revolution's campaign coordinator, Julio Ortega, virtually accused the PRI of murder, saying the attack was part of the PRI's campaign to intimidate voters.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1338307/posts (1033 words)

	Once Upon a Time in the West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On July 15, 2006 the two parties dispatched delegates to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, to a congress, the main purpose of which was to unite the two organizations within the restored/continuing Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
		Known as the Left Party, the new political merger won 8.7 per cent of the national vote in the September 2005 federal election and sent 54 deputies to the Bundestag, as the fourth largest parliamentary party, ahead of the Greens and only slightly behind the FDP.
		The NPD is a far-right party that harbored West Germany’s neo-Nazis in a fashion similar to that of NDPD in East Germany.
	www.russiastory.com (12187 words)

	Feminist Wire Daily Newsbriefs: Print This Page
		Amalia Garcia, of the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) claimed victory in state elections this past Sunday, according to The Guardian.
		The daughter of a former governor of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mexico's ruling party for 71 straight years until 2000, Garcia is also the first governor of either sex to have begun their political career in a leftist party.
		First a member of the communist party, Garcia became a founding member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, which formed in the late 1980's as the uncontested power of the PRI seemed to be diminishing.
	www.msmagazine.com /news/printnews.asp?id=8532 (283 words)

	Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties
		Cobb argued the party needed to nominate a candidate who openly belonged to the party (note: Nader had never joined) and was pledged to building the party at the local level.
		Allies of the hardcore faction firmly held control of the party from the late-1980s until the moderates seized control at the 2006 national convention and gutted the party's original platform.
		The party ran nuclear physicist John Hagelin as the NLP Presidential nominee in 1992 (ballot status in 32 stares - 39,000 votes - 0.04%), 1996 (ballot status in 44 states - 7th place - 110,000 votes - 0.1%) and 2000 (ballot status in 39 stares - 7th place - 83,000 votes - 0.08%).
	www.politics1.com /parties.htm (9472 words)

	Mexico Party Winning Guerrero Election
		Zeferino Torre Blanca, candidate for governor of the state of Guerrero of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) casts his vote Sunday Feb. 6, 2005, in Acapulco, Mexico, during the gubernatorial elections.
		Zeferino Torreblanca of the Democratic Revolution Party had a 57 to 41 percent lead over Hector Astudillo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, with 63 of the vote counted.
		Zeferino Torreblanca of the Democratic Revolution Party had a 58 percent to 40 percent lead over Hector Astudillo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, with 35 percent of the vote counted in Guerrero, election officials said.
	www.comcast.net /data/news/2005/02/07/53308.xml (667 words)

	USATODAY.com - PRI looks likely to continue slide in election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		MEXICO CITY — For most of the 20th century, power and the Institutional Revolutionary Party — or PRI —; were one and the same in Mexico.
		Roberto Madrazo, the party's presidential candidate, is running in third place behind the conservative PAN's Felipe Calderon and Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador of the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
		The party machinery, built up over eight decades, means "the PRI remains arguably the country's only real national party.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-06-21-mexico-pri_x.htm (1140 words)

	Mexican Presidential Race Now a Tie
		Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, took the lead over former Energy Minister Felipe Calderon in a voter poll ahead of the July 2 elections.
		Lopez Obrador, from the Party of the Democratic Revolution, promises to give priority to Mexico's millions of poor if he is elected.
		Milenio said Madrazo's PRI party, which ruled Mexico for 71 years until 2000 and remains strong at the state level and in Congress, would do well in elections for the Senate and lower house, also on July 2.
	www.banderasnews.com /0605/nr-mextie.htm (553 words)

	Mexico's Left Forms a Coalition
		Before the July elections these parties campaigned together as the Coalition for the Good of All, with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as their presidential candidate.
		Another is to “recover the autonomy of the institutions, with respect to the special interests that have colonized the State, and return to a political system in accordance with the new plural reality of the nation.” Few would look askance at that goal.
		Lopez Obrador might be able to use the FAP to turn the tables — to marginalize his opponents by shifting the focus away from the PRD to the coalition.
	www.mexidata.info /id1114.html (734 words)

	CNN - Mexico's status quo shaken by ruling party's new primary - May 19, 1999
		PRI leaders hailed the primary as evidence that the ruling party, long assailed by critics as hidebound and authoritarian, is becoming more open and democratic.
		Still, when those polled were asked to name their party preference, the PRI came in first, favored by 40 percent, compared to 35 percent for PAN and 21 percent for PRD.
		However, the two opposition parties, at polar ends of the political spectrum, face strong ideological and personal divisions that would make such a union difficult.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9905/19/mexico.pri/index.html (796 words)

	CNN - Leftist party poised to take 2 Mexican governorships - February 6, 1999
		In Guerrero, which boasts the glitzy resorts of Acapulco and Ixtapa, polls show Felix Salgado of the leftist Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD) even with PRI's Rene Juarez.
		Up the coast in sparsely populated Baja California Sur, the PRD's Leonel Cota and PRI's Antonio Manriquez were in a tight race, with one poll showing Cota, the mayor of La Paz, with a slight lead.
		The party captured the Mexico City mayoral race in 1997 and, aided by PRI divisions, governorships in Tlaxcala and Zacatecas in 1998.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9902/06/mexico.elex/index.html (413 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus \| Mexico's Democratic Transition Still Incomplete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		What conservatives portrayed as a dreaded possibility is the very thing that would have done most to consolidate the country's transition to democracy: a peaceful passing of power across ideological lines.
		Even after electoral officials reprimanded the PAN and forced the party to pull campaign advertisements that called López Obrador a "danger to Mexico" and that asserted false links with Hugo Chávez, right-wing business groups threw the same sucker punch in round two.
		The conduct at the great majority of polling places during last Sunday's elections was a far cry from in the bad old days of one-party government, when bought votes and stuffed ballot boxes were the norm.
	fpif.org /fpiftxt/3340 (967 words)

	Major victory for leftist party in Mexico - World News - MSNBC.com
		Marco Ugarte / AP Zeferino Torreblanca of the Democratic Revolution Party celebrates victory Sunday in his election as governor of the state of Guerrero in Chilpancingo, Mexico.
		Two other state elections Sunday went as predicted: Democratic Revolution held onto the governorship of Baja California Sur, where the resorts of Los Cabos are located, while the PRI held on to Quintana Roo, the site of Cancun.
		The victories had improved the presidential hopes of party President Roberto Madrazo — and his rivals in the party are sure to see the heavy loss in Guerrero as ammunition against him.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6929585 (705 words)

	Big Lizards:Blog:Entry “"Democratic" López Obrador Threatens Revolution If He Loses”
		The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) edged away from "democratic" and closer to "revolution" today as Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in a throwback to the days before there was democracy in Mexican elections, vowed street action if he is not declared the winner:
		On the left hand is the López Obrador-driven return to the dark days of Socialism, poverty, corruption, and violence; on the right is the dawn of capitalism and rule of law, led by Felipe Calderón and the National Action Party.
		As I recall it was mainly Democrat supporters creating violence at Republican party facilities during 2004.
	biglizards.net /blog/archives/2006/07/democratic_obra.html (1353 words)

	Party of the Democratic Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The party was originally founded by including many smaller left-wing parties such as the Partido Comunista Mexicano (PCM, Mexican Communist Party), Partido Socialista Unificado de México (PSUM, Unified Socialist Party of Mexico), and Partido Mexicano Socialista (PMS, Mexican Socialist Party).
		It has won gubernatorial races in several states including Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Guerrero, Michoacán and Zacatecas.
		Later, a second video appered, where Carlos Ahumada states that members of the PRI and PAN were planning the situation presented in the first video as part of a complot against Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to get him away as possible presidential candidate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Party_of_the_Democratic_Revolution (631 words)

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