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Authentic Party of Mexican Revolution () is a Mexican political party, that existed from 1955 to 2000. PARM was generally considered a satellite party of the governing
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
The PARM was founded by a group of veterans of the
Mexican Revolution who no longer found arrangement in the PRI, headed by
Juan Barragán and
Jacinto B. Treviño, both outstanding revolutionary generals who had held important governmental positions. In order to obtain the foundation of their party, they support President
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines whom the way saw to have an officially independent party but that actually secondary in all the actions of its government and the PRI and gave the appearance of democratic competition as much in the elections as in the Congress of the Union.
From their founding to 1988 the PARM never postulated own candidate to the presidency, but that adhered to the candidate of the PRI, also always it supported in greater or smaller degree the presidential proposals in the Congress. It never had real, single political force emphasized again like political competition in the
Nuevo Laredo,
Tamaulipas, city of which got to gain the Municipal Presidency.
In 1988 the PARM was the first party that it postulated like candidate to the presidency to the former member of PRI,
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano and that structured the beginning of the National Democratic Front, being the first time that this party moved...
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