National Democratic Front (Mexico)

National Democratic Front
Frente Democrático Nacional
LeaderCuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Founded1988
Dissolved1988
Merger ofPMS
PARM
PFCRN
PPS
Coalición Obrera, Campesina y Estudiantil del Istmo
Unión Popular Revolucionaria Emiliano Zapata
Central Campesina Cardenista
Central Independiente de Obreros Agrícolas y Campesinos
Asamblea de Barrios de la Ciudad de México
Unión de Colonias Populares
Merged intoParty of the Democratic Revolution
IdeologyDemocratic socialism
Left-wing nationalism
Progressivism
Cardenism
Indigenismo
Political positionLeft-wing
FDN poster, published after the election. Slogan reads: Everyone in the defense of the popular will! The People voted - Cárdenas won

The “National Democratic Front” (Spanish: Frente Democrático Nacional) was a coalition of Mexican left-wing political parties created to compete in the 1988 presidential elections, being the immediate predecessor of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). It was result of an agglutination of small political left and center-left forces with dissident members from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Their candidate for the presidential election was Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas.