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Labor Party Partido del Trabajo | |
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Abbreviation | PT |
Leader | Alberto Anaya |
Founded | 8 December 1990 |
Headquarters | Mexico City |
Membership (2023) | 457,624[1] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Left-wing[14] to far-left[18] |
National affiliation | Sigamos Haciendo Historia |
Continental affiliation | |
Colours | Red Yellow |
Chamber of Deputies | 49 / 500 |
Senate | 6 / 128 |
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Party website | |
The Labor Party (Spanish: Partido del Trabajo [paɾˈtiðo ðel tɾaˈβaxo], PT; also known as the Workers Party) is a socialist political party in Mexico. It was founded on 8 December 1990. The party is currently led by Alberto Anaya.
Following the 2018 election, the PT became the third-largest political party in the Chamber of Deputies with 61 deputies, after Morena with 191 and the PAN with 81. Political maneuvering briefly established the PRI as the third-largest party in August 2020, although it later turned out that the PT and the PRI were tied with 46 seats each after doubtful PRD deputy defections in favor of the PRI.[19][20][21]
It received 6.46% of the total votes cast in the 2024 presidential election,[22] becoming the sixth national political force. It has 49 deputies and 6 senators in the LXVI legislature of the Congress of the Union.[23][24]
Dentro de sus principios organizativos, el PT se concibe como un partido plural, tolerante, con libertad de pensamiento y opinión, que admite en su interior la divergencia de opiniones sin que nadie resulte perjudicado por exponer sus puntos de vista, pero que a la vez no permite la conformación de organismos paralelos.5 Plantea luchar por una sociedad socialista, plural, democrática, autogestionaria y humana[Within its organizational principles, the PT is conceived as a plural, tolerant party, with freedom of thought and opinion, which admits within itself the divergence of opinions without anyone being harmed by expressing their points of view, but which at the same time does not allow the formation of parallel organizations.5 It proposes to fight for a socialist, plural, democratic, self-managed and humane society.]
El Partido del Trabajo, de tendencia socialista y con guiños de simpatía al régimen de Corea del Norte, duplicará su presencia en el Congreso y podría rozar los 60 políticos en la cámara baja.[The Workers' Party, a socialist party with a sympathetic bent towards the North Korean regime, will double its presence in Congress and could reach nearly 60 politicians in the lower house.]
The coalition is led by Lopez Obrador's left-of-center MORENA party and also includes the socialist-leaning Labor Party.
En esta coalición se presentó una mezcla de la izquierda nacionalista (MORENA) con el maoísmo (PT) y el cristianismo (PES). Este último ocasionó un corrimiento hacia la derecha del lopezobradorismo.[This coalition was a mixture of the nationalist left (MORENA) with Maoism (PT) and Christianity (PES). The latter caused a shift to the right of Lopezobradorism.]
La candidatura de AMLO fue lanzada por Morena y por el Partido del Trabajo (PT), una agrupación política de tradición maoísta que había acompañado a AMLO también en coalición desde su primera búsqueda por la victoria presidencial, lo que era de esperarseal ser ambos partidos pertenecientes a corrientes de izquierda.[AMLO's candidacy was launched by Morena and the Labor Party (PT), a political group with a Maoist tradition that had also accompanied AMLO in coalition since his first search for presidential victory, which was to be expected since both parties belong to leftist currents.]
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So it made sense when López Obrador recruited the Mexican Labor Party, a collection of Maoist activists who revere the Chinese Communist Party, to join his electoral coalition earlier this year.
The PT is a left-wing party that is quite aligned with the Latin American political doctrine of the so-called Socialism of the 21st Century.
The current president of Mexico, López Obrador (AMLO), came to power because he was supported both by traditionally left-wing parties such as the Partido del Trabajo and by the evangelical, anti-gender party Encuentro Social.
El PT identificado con movimientos populares de izquierda en zonas regionales muy delimitadas del país y el PVE sustentado sus campañas en medios electrónicos dirigidas a un electorado urbano y a diferencia de los partidos verdes europeos se ha identificado con la derecha, siendo aliado a veces del PAN y a veces del PRI.[The PT identified with popular left-wing movements in very specific regional areas of the country and the PVE based its campaigns on electronic media aimed at an urban electorate and, unlike the European green parties, has identified with the right, sometimes being an ally of the PAN and sometimes of the PRI.]
En el análisis de la muestra de espectaculares fotografías de los candidatos a diputados federales, se encontró que contendieron 10 partidos políticos, los cuales muestransu nombre, sus siglas y su posición ideológica. Estos fueron: Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) (Centro, Centro derecha); Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) (Derecha, Centro derecha); Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) (Centroizquierda); Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (MORENA)(Izquierda); Partido Verde Ecologista de México (PVEM) (Derecha); Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) (Centroizquierda); Nueva Alianza (PANAL) (Centro, Centroderecha); Partido del Trabajo (PT) (Izquierda); Partido Encuentro Social (PES) (Derecha, Centroderecha); Partido Humanista (PH) (No tiene una posición definida)
Compared to others in the Pink Tide, Morena's political contours have at times been difficult to discern, and not only because of its odd-bedfellows electoral coalition with two smaller formations, one on the religious right (Partido Encuentro Social), the other on the far left (Partido del Trabajo).
Mr. López Obrador's broad coalition, formed by his own Movement for National Regeneration, the far-left Labor Party and the conservative Social Encounter party, got 307 out of 500 representatives in the Lower House and 68 out of 128 senators, according to estimates by the electoral agency with 94% of the vote counted.
Despite the left National Regeneration Party (MORENA), conservative Social Encounter Party (PES), and far-left Labor Party (PT) were also invited, none of the parties representatives attended.
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