The Popular Force Party or People's Force Party () was a Mexican political party created in 1945 as the electoral arm of the
National Synarchist Union
The National Synarchist Union () was a Mexican political organization. It was historically a movement of the Roman Catholic extreme right, similar to clerical fascism and Falangism, implacably opposed to the policies of the Institutional Revolu ...
. It participated in the
1946 presidential election, in which it supported the independent
Jesús A. Castro.
The party was banned when on December 19, 1948, members of the party decided to put a black hood on the monument of former president
Benito Juárez
Benito Pablo Juárez García (; 21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872) was a Mexican politician, military commander, and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872. A Zapotec peoples, Zapotec, he w ...
in
Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and finan ...
. It continued to enter electoral politics until the 1970s.
during the early 1970s, the organizations rearmaments formed and merged into the far-right
Mexican Democratic Party
The Mexican Democratic Party (, PDM, also known as ''El Partido Gallito Colorado'', "The Little Red Rooster Party") was a Roman Catholicism, Catholic social conservatism, social conservative political party in Mexico that existed between 1979 and 1 ...
.
Electoral history
Presidential elections
References
Political parties established in 1946
Far-right politics in Mexico
Defunct political parties in Mexico
Right-wing populism in Mexico
Banned far-right parties
Fascist parties
National syndicalism
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