Alliance for Change
Alianza por el Cambio
AbbreviationAxC
LeaderVicente Fox
Founded1999 (1999)
Dissolved2001 (2001)
IdeologyChristian democracy
Liberal conservatism
Social conservatism
Right-wing populism
Political positionRight-wing

The Alliance for Change (Spanish: Alianza por el Cambio, AxC) was a political alliance formed in Mexico for the purpose of contesting the general election of 2 July 2000 against the-then ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.

History

There were two member parties of the alliance: the National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional, or PAN), and the Green Ecological Party of Mexico (Partido Verde Ecologista de México, or PVEM).

With 43.43% of the popular vote in a three-horse race, the Alliance for Change's candidate for the position of President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, was declared the winner of the election, putting an end to 70 years of hegemonic rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Between them, the two parties also won 221 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (of 500) and 51 in the Senate (of 128).

Dissolution

One year after Fox took office, however, the PVEM publicly broke with the PAN as regards its support for him. Since then, the PVEM has more frequently allied itself with the PRI to fight gubernatorial and local elections.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election year Candidate # votes  % vote Result
2000 Vicente Fox 15,989,636 42.5 Green tick Elected

Congressional elections

Chamber of Deputies

Election year Constituency PR # of seats Position Presidency
votes  % votes  %
2000 14,212,032 38.2 14,321,975 38.3
223 / 500
 Minority Vicente Fox

Senate elections

Election year Constituency PR # of seats Position Presidency Note
votes  % votes  %
2000 14,208,973 38.1 14,339,963 38.2
60 / 128
 Minority Vicente Fox Coalition: Alliance for Change
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