Gabrielist Party
The Gabrielist Party (Spanish: Partido Gabrielista; PG) is a Mejican political party representing the Gabrielist movement, which supports the restoration of the Gabrielist line of the House of Bourbon to the throne of Mejico. The party defines itself as a "Christian and social-monarchist" movement, promoting a combination of Christian social values with the idea of a constitutional and popular monarchy.
Currently, the party and the movement are led by María Cecilia, Duchess of Cadereyta, the great-great-granddaughter of King Gabriel II of New Spain, who was deposed in 1825 by King Agustín I de Iturbide and María Carlota de Borbón, his aunt. The party opposes the executivism of the Iturbidist monarchy, and advocates the reduction of the monarch's powers, turning him into a symbol of national unity and guarantor of the rights and welfare of citizens, instead of a head of government with active participation in Mejican politics. It also suggests the elimination of the denominator "empire", downgrading Mejico to become a kingdom again, as it was before 1958.
Another unique proposal of the party is to eliminate the hereditary patrilineal succession to the throne, promoting instead the establishment of a gender-neutral elective system - the Gabrielist Summits - in which the electoral roll can choose from among the members of the Mejican Bourbon royal family the person they deem most suitable to occupy the throne. This is an innovative approach that breaks with Mejico's monarchical traditions and seeks to promote inclusiveness, representativeness and democratization of the succession process. The party argues that this model could mitigate potential dynastic conflicts and foster a more positive and closer perception of the monarchy among citizens, adapting its values to contemporary realities.
The Gabrielist Party is currently a catch-all party and has evolved its political positions since its official founding in 1922, although the movement itself is much older, dating back to the deposition of Gabriel II. In the beginning, the movement was primarily led by liberal legitimists and reformers who were supporters of the policies of Gabriel II's grandfather, the first king of independent Mejico (then New Spain), Gabriel I. Over the decades, as Mejican liberalism evolved, Gabrielism tended to follow in opposition to conservative governments, adopting at different periods pro-British, progressive, revolutionary, and at times, cooperative policies with moderate socialist movements, with its thought being partially influenced by the Catholic Social Movement of Ernesto Valverde. Today, its supporters include Christian socialists, secularists, constitutionalist monarchists, neo-progressives, anti-fascists, liberals, and left-libertarians.
It is represented in the provincial congresses of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Béjar, Coahuila, and Pecos, although it does not have a majority in any of them. Since the extraordinary elections of 2024, it holds 19 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and two seats in the Senate. Duchess Maria Cecilia has managed to galvanize her supporters and new affiliates through the creation of her "Shadow Government", which has become popular on social networks and is used by the party to promote the actions that it would have taken on various social and political issues of the moment. Gabrielism has not been able to attract as many voters as it expected after the proscription of opposition parties in 2023, as leftists concentrated their efforts mainly around the CORIZ coalition.