Citizens' Movement Movimiento Ciudadano
Leader	Dante Delgado Rannauroa
Founder	Dante Delgado Rannauro
Founded	1 August 1998 (1998-08-01) (Convergence) 31 July 2011 (2011-07-31) (Citizens' Movement)
Split from	PRI
Newspaper	El Ciudadano
Youth wing	Youth in Movement
Membership (2023)	384,005[1]
Ideology	Social democracy[2][3] Progressivism[4] Participatory democracy[5] Social liberalism[6]
Political position	Centre-left[7]
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance[8]
Continental affiliation	COPPPAL
Colours	Orange and White
Chamber of Deputies	28 / 500
Senate	13 / 128
Governorships	2 / 32
State legislatures	37 / 1,124
Website
Party website
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Citizens' Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Ciudadano) is a center-left Mexican political party. It was founded on August 1, 1999, 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, which in 2011 it eventually adopted its current name. ^[9]

The electoral colours of the party before 2011 were blue and orange, and the party logo was 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.

It is known for its song "Movimiento Naranja" which has 41 million views on YouTube, which became a popular meme in the Hispanic community.^[10][11]

In the 2021 federal elections it was a minor political force, receiving 7.01% of the votes cast. Within the LXIV Legislature of the Congress of the Union it has 24 federal deputies and 8 senators . It currently holds the governorships of Jalisco and Nuevo León . In February 2020 it had 229,479 members.^[12]

History

Convergencia logo

Originally known as Convergence, it 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.

The party 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.

Ideology

The party describes itself as social-democratic.^[13] with the party is positioning itself to the right of Morena.

The current party platform aims to advocate for a social market economy , gender equality , sexual freedom , sustainable mobility , the use of sustainable energy , green economy , a new fiscal pact, demilitarization , federalism and primary elections in political parties.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

  PAN

  PRI

  PRD

  MC

  Morena

  Independent

State governors by party (2022)

Election year	Candidate	No. votes	% vote	Result	Note
2000					Support PRD candidate; coalition: Alliance for Mexico
2006					Support PRD candidate; coalition: Coalition for the Good of All
2012					Support PRD candidate; coalition: Broad Progressive Front
2018					Support PAN candidate; coalition: Por México al Frente

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

References