 In addition, he led various national business organizations and was a main co-founder of Mexico's National Action Party PAN.Though he himself not a PAN affiliate, he believed in the essential importance of democracy by means of a bi-partisan system that could serve as a contrast to then Mexico's ruling political party PRI (thus his involvement PAN in its inception).Sanchez-Navarro would years later be known as the moral conscience and the single most important ideological figure in Mexico's booming business community.