Question

In which country is the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) active?
A. Mexico
B. Zimbabwe
C. Pakistan
D. China

Answer 1

Hint: The Institutional Revolutionary Party was founded on $4$ March $1929$ by Plutarco Elias Calles. The party was created to solve a political crisis caused by the assassination of president-elect Alvaro Obregon in $1928$. The party is nicknamed “EL tricolor” because of its tricolor flag.

Complete answer:
1. PRI was founded as the National Revolutionary Party with the intent of providing political space for all the surviving leaders and combatants of the Mexican Revolution. The PRI dominated the political landscape of Mexico as it held uninterrupted power for $71$ years from $1929$ to $2000$.
2. PRI is often characterized as a “Single Party” as it maintained absolute power over the country for most of the twentieth century. Besides holding the Presidency of Mexico, until $1976$ all the members of the senate belonged to PRI.
3. After the end of the Mexican Revolution in $1920$, Mexico continued to suffer from a political crisis. The assassination of president-elect Alvaro Obregon led to the formation of PRI which aimed to institutionalize the power of victors of the Mexican Revolution.
Over the years, PRI became so dominant that its rule was termed as a “Perfect Dictatorship” and devised a practice called “EL Dezado” by which the incumbent president directly hand picked his successor.
4. PRI was known initially as the National Revolutionary Party, then as the Party of Mexican Revolution, and finally, as PRI beginning in $1946$. The PRI adherents presided over Mexico during the infamous “Tlatelolco massacre” and the “Peso crisis”.
So, the correct answer is Option C.

Note: PRI juggernaut was stopped for the first time when it lost the presidential race in $2000$ but they continued to dominate Mexican politics at the local level. The PRI suffered an unexpected loss in the $2018$ presidential election. The current president of Mexico is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.