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Labour Party ('''Partido del Trabajo''', abbreviated to "PT") is a nationally recognized Political Party in Mexico founded on December 8 , 1990 . The party is currently led by Alberto Anaya . The PT's roots lay in a network of Community Organizations formed by Maoist activists. The party first participated in federal elections in 1991, but it failed to win 1.5 percent of the vote (the amount necessary to be recognized as a national party). In 1994, Rosario Ibarra , the prominent activist, became the presidential candidate but later declined in favor of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas . In 1998 the PT allied with the larger Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) for the first time in the state of Zacatecas . In the 2000 Elections , the party took part in the PRD-led Alliance For Mexico . As part of the Alliance, it won 7 seats in the Chamber Of Deputies and 1 seat in the Senate . The PT ran separately from the PRD in the 2003 Elections for the Chamber of Deputies. The party won 2.4 % of the popular vote and 6 out of 500 seats in the Chamber Of Deputies . In November 2005, the PT endorsed the PRD's candidate for President , Andrés Manuel López Obrador . EXTERNAL LINKS |