Abstract

ARAGON FALOMIR, Jaime; FERNANDEZ DE LARA GAITAN, Alfredo Edmundo  and  LUCCA, Juan Bautista. The 2018 Elections in Mexico and the Triumph of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA). Estud. Polit. [online]. 2019, n.54, pp.286-308. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n54a14.

This article analyzes Mexico’s 2018 elections, in which, for the first time, a leftist party won the presidency, as well as a large majority of the legislative branch both at the federal and at the local level. From a political-historical perspective, first, this study takes into account the dynamics and patterns that the Mexican political system has presented over the past four decades. Second, it analyzes the emergence of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) as a new party capable of electoral success in the framework of party stability. Third, it evaluates the party’s political pulse in the electoral campaigns to see how the tension between candidates and parties occurred. Fourth, it compares the electoral results of the presidential elections of 2006 and 2012, in order to analyze the historically situated explanations of MORENA’s victory. This analytical approach allows to determine to what extent the election of a new party in 2018 produced a historical transformation that established a new political system in Mexico.

Keywords : Elections; Political Party; Political Change; National Regeneration Movement; Andrés Manuel López Obrador; Mexico.

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