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Institutional Revolutionary Party

political party, Mexico
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Also known as: Mexican Revolutionary Party, National Revolutionary Party, PNR, PRI, PRM, PRN, Partido Nacional Revolucionario, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, Partido Revolucionario Nacional, Partido de la Revolución Mexicana, Party of the Mexican Revolution, Priistas
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Spanish:
Partido Revolucionario Institucional
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1929 - present

Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mexican political party that dominated the country’s political institutions from its founding in 1929 until the end of the 20th century. Virtually all important figures in Mexican national and local politics belonged to the party, because the nomination of its candidate to a public office was almost always tantamount to election. Originally called the National Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Nacional), the party was renamed the Mexican Revolutionary Party (Partido de la Revolución Mexicana) in 1938 and took its current name, Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional; PRI), in 1946. The PRI was founded by former president ...(100 of 973 words)

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