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The National Action Party ( '''''Partido Acción Nacional'''''), known by the acronym '''PAN''', is a Conservative and Christian Democratic party and one of the three main Political Parties In Mexico . The party is led by Manuel Espino Barrientos ( 2005 ). Mexican Roman Catholics , together with other conservatives, founded the PAN in 1939 after the ''cristero'' insurgency lost the Cristero War . They were looking for a peaceful way to bring about change in the country and to achieve political representation, after the years of chaos and violence that followed the Mexican Revolution . The turning point in the Cristero War was when the Catholic Church reached an agreement with the National Revolutionary Party – the forerunner of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that dominated power for most of the 20th century – whereunder it turned a blind eye to the lack of democracy in the country and stopped supporting the Catholic rebels, threatening its members with Excommunication if they disobeyed the government. The PAN spent its first years since its foundation in 1939 in opposition, as all presidents since the end of the Mexican Revolution were from the PRI or its variously named predecessors. Despite an absence during the 1976 elections due to internal rivalries, the party saw its support grow during the 1980s and 1990s, leading to the first non-PRI governor in 1989 in Baja California. In the 2000 Presidential Elections , the candidate of the '' Alianza Por El Cambio '' ("Alliance for change"), formed by the PAN and the PVEM , Vicente Fox Quesada won 42.5% of the popular vote and was elected President Of Mexico . In the Senatorial Elections of the same date, the Alliance as part of the 46 out of 128 seats in the Senate Of Mexico . The Alliance broke off the following year and the PVEM has since participated together with the PRI in several elections. Three years later at the last Legislative Elections , the party won 23.1% of the popular vote and 153 out of 500 seats in the Chamber Of Deputies . CONSERVATIVE POLITICS The PAN occupies the right of Mexico's political spectrum, advocating free enterprise, reduced taxes, smaller government, and reform of the welfare state. Its philosophy has similarities with the Republican Party of the United States , the Conservative Party Of Canada or Europe 's Christian Democratic parties, and many of its members are also advocates of Roman Catholicism as a political inspiration. The PAN is a member of the Christian Democrat Organization Of America (CDOA). The PAN officially claims to be a non-confessional party in a country that is 90% Catholic; however, while on the campaign trail in 2000 , Vicente Fox appeared holding a banner emblazoned with the revered icon of the Virgin Of Guadalupe – and was fined MXN $20,000 for mixing religion and politics. As president, he has continued to make very public appearances attending mass as well as procaliming his faith (even kissing Pope John Paul II's ring upon his arrival in Mexico in 2002) and always ending his speaches with a "god bless you" enraging several sectors of Mexican society for mixing politics and religion. In some cases, PAN mayors and governors have banned public employees from wearing Miniskirt s ( Guadalajara, Jalisco ), clamped down on the use of Profanity in public marketplaces ( Santiago De Querétaro ), and – in one particularly notorious case in the northern state of Baja California – brought extreme religious and political pressure to bear on a teenaged rape victim to dissuade her from Abortion , as she was legally entitled to do. Such stances are not, however, shared by many of the PAN's middle-class rank and file members, who traditionally saw supporting the party as the best way of preventing the PRI from remaining in power. RECENT HISTORY On , 2004 Mexican Elections and 2005 Mexican Elections for results.) For the presidential election in 2006, Felipe Calderón , the former president of PAN, was selected as the PAN candidate for the office of President. He beat his opponent, Santiago Creel , in every voting round inside the party. EXTERNAL LINKS
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