General elections were held in Mexico on Sunday, 2 July 2000. Voters went to the polls to elect a new president to serve a single six-year term, replacing President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, who
Vicente Fox WEF 2003 cropped
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano
Cárdenas and Fox campaign buttons.
The National Action Party is a conservative political party in Mexico founded in 1939. It is one of the main political parties in the country, and, since the 1980s, has had success winning local, stat
2000 Mexican general election
…the PRI. On 20 November Labastida was declared the PRI candidate. The former Guanajuato governor Vicente Fox Quesada was the only person to seek the National Action Party nomination and was ratified by the party. Pedro Cerisola was his general campaign coordinator. Porfirio Muñoz Ledo and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas declared…
Manuel Gómez Morín, founder of the PAN in 1939
Vicente Fox, first PANista to be elected president of Mexico (2000–06), ended more than 70 years of PRI rule.
Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico (2006–12)