The Labor Party is also known as Partido del Trabajo (PT) in the Spanish language which means Workers Party. It is a political party in Mexico that was founded on 8 December 1990. The party is currently led by the party leader Alberto Anaya. Its headquarter is in Mexico City. The ideology of the party includes the party support of democratic socialism, left-wing nationalism, laborers, progressivism, anti-capitalism socialism of the 21st century, and anti-imperialism. The political position of the party is left-wing and its national affiliation is Juntos Haremos Historia. It has 33 Chamber of deputies out of 500 seats while 4 Senates out of 128. The party symbol is of orange and yellow color.
History of the Labor Party
In 1991, the party for the first time participated in federal elections but it failed to win by 1.5 % of the vote. Then in 1994, Cecilia Soto became the presidential candidate of the party. In 1998, the Labor Party associated with the larger Democratic Revolution Party also known as PRD for the first time in the state of Zacatecas.
After that in 2011, the party participated in the PRD-led Alliance for the Good of All. The party won 7 seats in the chamber of deputies and one seat in the Senate as a part of the alliance. In the 2003 elections for the Chamber of deputies, the PT (Labor Party) ran separately from the PRD. It won 2.4% of the popular vote and 6 out of 500 seats in the chamber of deputies that year.
Then in November 2005, the Labor Party endorsed the candidate of the PRD party for president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for the 2006 elections. In that election, PT won 12 out of 500 seats in the chamber of deputies and 3 out of 128 Senators. Then in October 2006 the party again associated itself with the PRD and the convergence party to form Broad Progressive Front which was granted the register by the Federal Electoral Institute.
In the 2012 Mexican General election, PT supported the presidential candidate of PRD Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
After the elections of 2018, the Labor party became the third largest political party in the deputies with 61 while Morena was the first with 191 and PAN was the second with 81.
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General election of 2018
In the 2018 Mexican General election, PT participated for the fifth time in the presidential election. In that election, its candidate for the presidency was Andrés Manuel López Obrador because it formed a coalition with left-wing Morena (National Regeneration Movement) and right-wing PES (Social Encounter Party).
On 24 June 2017, the Labor Party agreed to stand for the election in 2018 as an electoral alliance with Morena. However, this coalition was not officially registered before the National Electoral Institute which is the electoral authority of the country. The alliance was facilitated from Marina as a result of the decline of the Labor Party candidate Óscar González Yáñez because he resigned his candidacy requesting the vote in favor of Delfina Gómez Álvarez, the standard-bearer in the 2017 state election of the State of Mexico.
Earlier, there was speculation about the possibility of a front grouping all the leftist parties that are Morena, PRD, and PT and Citizens movement (MC). But Andrés Manuel López Obrador rejected any kind of agreement because of political differences, especially after the elections in the state of Mexico as the candidates of the PRD and MC continued with their campaigns and refused to support the candidate of Morena. However, later at the end of November 2017, the leading candidates of Morena and PES announced that they were in talks and they will form a possible alliance. In subject to this Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes who is the president of PES said that we do not negotiate with the PRI, we have two options go alone or with Morena.
Then on 13 December, the coalition between Morena, PT, and PES was formalized and they have given the name Juntos Haremos Historia which means Together we will make history. After signing the agreement Andrés Manuel López Obrador became the pre-candidate for the three political formations. This was a partial coalition between them that will promote López Obrador as a presidential candidate concerning legislative elections. In that election, Morena chose candidates in 150 federal electoral districts and 32 districts to the Senate while Labor Party chose 75 deputies and 16 senators and PES also chose 75 deputies and 16 senators.
Controversy
The alliance between these three parties received criticism because this coalition between two left-wing parties which were Morena and PT the formation related to the Evangelical right (PES). However, in response to the situation Yeidckol Polevnsky, the national president of Morena said that her party believes in inclusion and joint work to rescue Mexico and they will continue to defend human rights. On the other hand, Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes who is the national president of PES said that the only possibility of real change in the country is because of the one headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador and thus his party has decided to put on the right side of the history.
Electoral History of the Labor Party
However, the electoral history of the Labor party is not so successful but they have stood in several election years which are as mentioned below:
Cecilia Soto González stood in the year 1994 and 2000 but lost the election.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador candidate of PRD stood in 2006 and 2012 but lost the election.
Then in 2018 Andrés Manuel López Obrador stood from the Morena party and won the election as the party was in the coalition.