Popular Force Party

For the Peruvian party, see Popular Force.

The Popular Force Party or People's Force Party (Spanish: Partido Fuerza Popular) was a Mexican political party created in 1945 as the electoral arm of the National Synarchist Union.^[1] It participated in the 1946 presidential election, in which it supported the independent Jesús A. Castro.

Popular Force Party Partido Fuerza Popular
Leaders	Gildardo González Sánchez Jesús A. Castro
Founded	1945 (1945)
Banned	1948 (1948)
Merged into	Mexican Democratic Party
Headquarters	León, Guanajuato
Ideology	Mexican nationalism National syndicalism Social conservatism Clerical fascism Third Positionism
Political position	Far-right
Religion	Roman Catholicism
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The party was banned when on December 19, 1948, members of the party decided to put a black hood on the monument of former president Benito Juárez in Mexico City. It continued to enter electoral politics until the 1970s.^[2] during the early 1970s, the organizations rearmaments formed and merged into the far-right Mexican Democratic Party.^[3]

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election year	Candidate	Votes	%	Outcome	Notes
1946	Jesus Agustín Castro	29,338	1.3 #4	Lost