Citizens' Movement (Mexico)

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Citizens' Movement Movimiento Ciudadano
Leader
Founder	Dante Delgado Rannauro
Founded	1 August 1998 (1998-08-01) ( [es]) 31 July 2011 (2011-07-31) (Citizens' Movement)
Newspaper	El Ciudadano
Youth wing	Youth in Movement
Ideology	Social democracy Participatory democracy Progressivism[1]
Political position	Centre-left[2]
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance[3]
Continental affiliation	COPPPAL
Colours	Orange
Chamber of Deputies	25 / 500
Senate	8 / 128
Governorships	1 / 32
State legislatures	37 / 1,124
Website
Official website
Politics of Mexico Political parties Elections

Citizens' Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Ciudadano) is a political party in Mexico. Dante Delgado Rannauro was its 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. Since the 4th of December 2018, Clemente Castañeda has been the head of the party as part of a new wave of young leaders.

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 contested 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 Labor 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. It is known for its song "Movimiento Naranja" which has 41 million views on YouTube, which became a popular meme in the Hispanic community.^[4][5]

  PRI

  PAN

  PRD

  Convergence

  PVEM

State governors by party (2013)

  PAN

  PRI

  PRD

  MC

  Morena

  independiente

State governors by party (2018)

Convergence describes itself as a social-democratic party.^[6] Its electoral colours were 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, with its new official logo becoming an orange square with a white eagle.

Convergencia logo

Electoral history[]

Presidential elections[]

Congressional elections[]

Chamber of Deputies[]

Election year	Constituency		PR		No. of seats	Position	Presidency		Note
	Votes	%	Votes	%
2000	See: Party of the Democratic Revolution				0 / 500	Minority	Vicente Fox		Coalition: Coalition for the Good of All
2003	603,392	2.3	605,156	2.3	5 / 500	Minority	Vicente Fox
2006	See: Party of the Democratic Revolution				18 / 500	Minority	Felipe Calderón		Coalition: Alliance for Mexico
2009	851,639	2.5	854,347	2.5	6 / 500	Minority	Felipe Calderón
2012	58,096		1,943,855	3.99	16 / 500	Minority	Enrique Peña Nieto		Coalition: Broad Progressive Front
2015	2,421,164	6.40	2,431,908	6.09	26 / 500	Minority	Enrique Peña Nieto		Coalition: Broad Progressive Front
2018					27 / 500	Minority	Andrés Manuel López Obrador		Coalition: For Mexico to the Front

Senate elections[]

Election year	Constituency		PR		No. of seats	Position	Presidency		Note
	Votes	%	Votes	%
2000	See: Party of the Democratic Revolution				1 / 128	Minority	Vicente Fox		Coalition: Coalition for the Good of All
2006	See: Party of the Democratic Revolution				1 / 128	Minority	Felipe Calderón		Coalition: Alliance for Mexico
2012			2,025,045	4.3	1 / 128	Minority	Enrique Peña Nieto		Coalition: Broad Progressive Front
2018					7 / 128	Minority	Andrés Manuel López Obrador		Coalition: For Mexico to the Front

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