Mexican Socialist Party

The Mexican Socialist Party (Spanish: "Partido Mexicano Socialista", PMS) was the former left-wing Mexican political party immediate antecedent of the present Party of the Democratic Revolution, it was the last effort of unification of the different Mexican parties of left and the last political party that the socialist word in its name was officially used. It existed between 1987 and 1989.

The PMS arose in 1987 when single being unified in the one old Unified Socialist Party of Mexico and Mexican Workers' Party with the historical aspiration of the Mexican left to constitute a single political organization and who never had been obtained by ideological differences.

The party participated solely in the 1988 elections, in which it had postulated like its candidate to Heberto Castillo, a month before the accomplishment of the elections, Castillo decided to decline its candidacy in favor of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano and to integrate itself in the National Democratic Front (extended front of left parties) that postulated it to the Presidency of the Republic, when finishing the electoral process, in 1989 the PMS along with integrated the old Democratic Current of the PRI and constituted the Party of the Democratic Revolution with the own legal registry of the PMS.

PMS candidates for the Presidency

*(1988): Heberto Castillo (declined)
*(1994): Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano (allied with PPS, PARM and PFCRN to form National Democratic Front)

ee also

*Unified Socialist Party of Mexico
*Party of the Democratic Revolution
*List of political parties in Mexico