Leader Luis Castro Obregón Ideology Liberalism Seats in the Chamber of Deputies 11 / 500 Founded 30 January 2005 Headquarters Mexico City Political position Centrism | Youth wing Alianza Joven Colours Aqua Founder Elba Esther Gordillo Color Aqua International affiliation Liberal International | |
Continental affiliation Liberal Network for Latin America Profiles | ||
The New Alliance Party (Spanish: Partido Nueva Alianza, PNA or PANAL) is a political party in Mexico.
Its creation was proposed by the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE, National Union of Education Workers), the largest trade union in Latin America, led by Elba Esther Gordillo, the controversial former general secretary of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
The New Alliance Party was created on January 30, 2005, three years after the SNTE created the Asociación Ciudadana del Magisterio (ACM, Citizen Association of Teachers), a political group recognized by the Federal Electoral Institute since August 2002. The creation of this party by the SNTE, a group that has traditionally supported the PRI in every election caused accusations of treason for Gordillo.
The party's president is Jorge Kahwagi. On January 8, 2006 the PNA elected Roberto Campa as its candidate for president in the 2006 general elections. In the 2006 legislative elections the party won nine out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one out of 128 Senators. In the 2009 legislative elections the party lost one seat in the Chamber of Deputies, leaving it with eight seats. In the 2012 legislative elections, PANAL won 2 seats in the Senate (an overall loss of 3), and 10 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (an overall gain of 3).
The party logo distinctly resembles that of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance, a conservative party active from 2000 to 2003. The logo was provided by an ad agency, purported to resemble a dove. Despite the discovery of the logo's resemblance to that of the Canadian Alliance (leading one founding member of the party to express feeling "robbed"), it was nonetheless adopted. The party's 2012 presidential candidate, Gabriel Quadri, appeared in a wetsuit at his campaign launch, as did Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day.
Copa Turquesa 2015
The New Alliance Party introduced Copa Turquesa 2015, a soccer tournament, which will begin on March 28 in the boys division and April 5 in the women division (until May 23, this after 16 teams per district play each other in the regular season directions, May 16, to compete in the four semifinals will be held). Copa Turquesa will be held in several municipalities in the state of Puebla, this in order to promote sports among citizens and physical activity to Puebla. Thus, the presentation of Copa Turquesa was attended by former players Carlos Poblete and Roberto Ruiz Esparza, as well as former coach José Luis Sánchez Solá 'Chelis' and as well as the national president of New Alliance, Luis Castro Obregón, and the president of the party in Puebla, Angel, Gerardo Maldonado Islands. Copa Turquesa will have 12 headquarters in the municipalities of ...