Conservative Party (Mexico)

Conservative Party
Partido Conservador
FounderLucas Alamán
Founded1849 (1849)[1]
DissolvedJune 1867 (1867-06)
HeadquartersMexico City
IdeologyClericalism
Centralism
Corporatism
After 1863:
Monarchism
Political positionRight-wing
ReligionRoman Catholicism
Colors  Blue

The Conservative Party (Spanish: Partido Conservador) was a political faction in Mexico between 1823 and 1867, which became a loosely organized political party after 1849.

At various times and under different circumstances they were known as escoceses, centralists, royalists, imperialists, or conservatives, but they tended to be united by the theme of preserving colonial Spanish values, while not being opposed to the economic development and modernization of the nation. Their base of support was the army, the hacendados, and the Catholic Church.[2]

In the constitutional history of Mexico they supported the movement to have a centralized republic as opposed to a federal republic, and produced the Constitution of 1836 and the Constitution of 1843. Certain Conservative intellectuals supported a monarchy for Mexico but between the First Mexican Empire and the Second Mexican Empire such ideas were reduced to a fringe movement.[3] By the time the French launched their invasion of Mexico in 1862, monarchism was insignificant and the French at first struggled to find supporters among the Conservatives in their aims to establish a monarchical client state. Many Conservatives were eventually won over only to be disillusioned with the liberal inclinations of Emperor Maximilian. With the fall of the Second Mexican Empire the conservatives suffered a decisive defeat, and the party ceased to exist.[4]

  1. ^ West, Ty (2020-07-01). "CONSERVATIVE STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE NEW MEDIA: CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT AND THE PRESS IN MEXICO 1848-1856". Tiempo Histórico (20). doi:10.25074/th.v0i20.1731. ISSN 0719-5699.
  2. ^ Fehrenbach, T.R. (1995). Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico. Da Capo Press. p. 229. ISBN 9781497609730.
  3. ^ Sanders, Frank Joseph (1967). Proposals for Monarchy in Mexico. University of Arizona. p. 282.
  4. ^ Figueroa Esquer Raúl; "El tiempo eje de México, 1855–1867." En Estudios. Filosofía, historia, letras, México ITAM, 2012. pp 23-49