Partido Accion Nacional

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Partido Accion Nacional

POLITICAL PARTY

The National Action Party, known by its Spanish initials PAN, is a right-wing political party in Mexico. It has been largely defined by its opposition role to the historically dominant Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) over 7 decades.

PAN grew from a regional power to a national influence during the economic crisis of the 1970s/1980s, drawing many of the industrialist funders that formerly backed PRI as well as harvesting some of the national backlash against PRI's corruption and cronyism.

1989 saw the first PAN state governorship in Baja California. With 2000 came the first PAN president ever in the form of Vicente Fox.

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña Government 22-Apr-1952 Mexican Minister of the Interior, 2006-08

Felipe Calderón Head of State 18-Aug-1962 President of Mexico

Santiago Creel Politician 11-Dec-1954 President of the PAN Senate Delegation

Vicente Fox Head of State 2-Jul-1942 President of Mexico, 2000-06

Manuel Gomez Morin Politician 27-Feb-1897 19-Apr-1972 One of the Seven Sages of Mexico

Luis Calderón Vega Politician 27-Feb-1911 7-Dec-1989 Los Siete Sabios de México

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