Leader Dante Delgado Rannauro Youth wing Youth in Movement | Newspaper The Citizen Political position Left-wing | |
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Founded August 1, 1998 (1998-08-01) (Convergence)
July 31, 2011 (2011-07-31) (Citizens' Movement) Ideology Social democracy
Participatory democracy
Progressivism
Environmentalism
Feminism | ||
Citizens' Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Ciudadano) is a political party in Mexico. Andrés Manuel López Obrador was the first leader. It was initially known as Convergence for Democracy (Spanish: Convergencia por la Democracia), but the name was shortened to simply Convergence (Spanish: Convergencia) in August 2002. In July 2011, it was reformed as the Citizens' Movement.
Convergence was founded as a "national political grouping" in 1997. It attained registered party status in 1999 and participated in federal elections in the 2000 general election as a component in the "Alliance for Mexico" (Alianza por México), whose (unsuccessful) presidential candidate was Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. In that election, as its part of the alliance's share, it was awarded one Senate seat and two in the Chamber of Deputies.
It fought the 2003 mid-term congressional election as an independent (unallied) party, and was rewarded with 2.3% of the popular vote and five seats in the Chamber of Deputies. As of 2004 it governed 28 municipalities in various parts of the country.
In the 2006 general election, Convergence allied itself with the Party of the Democratic Revolution and the Labour Party to form the Alliance for the Good of All coalition, whose presidential candidate was Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The party won 17 out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 5 out of 128 Senators.
Convergence describes itself as a democratic socialist party. Its electoral colours are blue and orange; the party logo is a blue circle, superimposed by an orange eagle and the word Convergencia. The party was renamed the Citizens' Movement and reformed on 31 July 2011.