National Action Party Jalisco
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National Action Party Jalisco was founded in Jalisco in 1939 by Efrain Gonzalez Luna, as part of the National Action Party founded the same year in Mexico City.
As of 2008, it is the main political party of Jalisco (a Western Mexico State): it controls politics in the State as it has won most of political spaces in public elections since 1995. Currently the State the Governor, city majors of the capital area ( Guadalajara, Zapopan, Tonala and Tlaquepaque) and majority of Congressmen come from this party.
The Party is organised in district, municipal and state committees. Formerly, when the PRI ruled over Mexico as a dominant party, like the axis of the Mexican political scheme, the PAN JALISCO was a truly opposition party, conformed by independent professionals such like physicians, dentists, lawyers, accountants and small businesspeople. It had a unique democratic system to vote for party officials and leaders, as well of choosing the right candidates for general and midterm elections.
However, after few years of finally gaining the main post of the state of Jalisco, the Governorship (Alberto Cardenas 1995), the party began to lose some of its democratic credentials. Some authors claim that after a period of time, original party members were outnumbered by opportunists who flooded the party with the affiliation of relatives, friends, business associates and so on, in order to win PAN JALISCO's electoral processes. In fact, with more elections won, most of newcomers within time won spaces in municipal administrations, Congress and even jobs in the State Governmental bodies.
It remains questionable whether the party will survive if it ever loses control of State Congress, the Governorship and the leadership of cities ruled by PAN JALISCO; as it would be a party going far away from the principles of its 'Founding Fathers': common good, subsidiary, solidarity, and human dignity, which also lead to honesty and public accountability. Specially by the fact that last National election (2006), was full of uncertainty due to the fatigue in electors because a long political campaigning, and quite a large numbers of last-minute undecided voters.
Although it has been linked to the 'right wing' political scheme, its principles remain close to the centre, having the human being at the top of its priorities, but without biases towards neither extreme individualism, nor to socialism or collectivism.
To some authors, the Party went on top of Mexican political scheme too fast, and that would be the cause of corruption and collusion among party leaders and public state officers. Such a problem would endanger the future of the party in public democratic elections.
