The politics of Mexico take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic whose government is based on a congressional system, whereby the President of Mexico is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. The federal government represents the United Mexican States and is divided into three branches: executive, legislative and judicial, as established by the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, published in 1917. The constituent states of the federation must also have a republican form of government based on a congressional system as established by their respective constitutions.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the National Revolutionary Party, then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution and finally as the PRI beginning in 1946.
The National Action Party is a conservative political party in Mexico founded in 1939. The party is one of the four main political parties in Mexico, and, since the 1980s, has had success winning local, state, and national elections.
The Party of the Democratic Revolution is a social democratic political party in Mexico. The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 1986 from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The PRD was formed after the contested general election in 1988, which the PRD's immediate predecessor, the National Democratic Front, believed was rigged by the PRI. This sparked a movement away from the PRI's authoritarian rule.
Gustavo Alberto Vázquez Montes was a Mexican politician. At the time of his death he was serving as the governor of the western state of Colima, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
The Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution was a Mexican political party that existed from 1954 to 2000. For most of its existence, the PARM was generally considered a satellite party of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Abel Guerra Garza is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who has served twice as municipal president of Escobedo, Nuevo León, and once as a federal congressman in the lower house of the Mexican Congress (2000–2002).
Raymundo Flores Elizondo is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served in the cabinet of Governor José Natividad González Parás. He is the current municipal president of Apodaca.
Manuel Andrade Díaz is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI and former Governor of Tabasco. He holds a law degree from the University Juárez Autónoma of Tabasco and qualified in Electoral Law and Parliamentary Law.
José Reyes Estrada Ferriz is a Mexican politician, affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as the municipal president of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, from 2007 to 2010.
The president of Mexico, officially the president of the United Mexican States, is the head of state and head of government of Mexico. Under the Constitution of Mexico, the president heads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the Mexican Armed Forces. The current president is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office on 1 December 2018.
Flor Ayala Robles Linares is a Mexican politician. Was Local Deputy for the state of Sonora’s XII Local District headed by Hermosillo in the LIX Legislature of the Congress of Sonora. She is currently Federal Deputy by proportional representation in the Chamber of Deputies of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
Ivonne Liliana Álvarez García is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In 2012 she was elected to serve as a Senator of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Nuevo León. She was also Municipal President of Guadalupe, Nuevo León, and has been widely criticized for not fulfilling her term to seek a position in the senate; Álvarez publicly promised during her campaign not to do this. In the 2018 general elections she secured a seat in the lower house of the Mexican congress.
José Rosas Aispuro Torres is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the National Action Party who is currently the governor of Durango. From 2012 to 2015, he served as senator in the LXII and LXIII Legislatures representing Durango. He also was Municipal President of Durango, Durango from 2001 to 2004.
Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution. He represents Nayarit and the first electoral region as a deputy to the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz was a Mexican politician belonging to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as Governor of Jalisco from 2013 to 2018.
Alma Lilia Luna Munguía is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She serves as a federal deputy to the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the XXXII Federal Electoral District of the State of Mexico, centered on Valle de Chalco Solidaridad.
Carlos Manuel Joaquín González is a Mexican politician, the governor of the state of Quintana Roo. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Quintana Roo.
Miguel Ángel Luna Munguía was a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party and Party of the Democratic Revolution. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing the 32nd district of the State of Mexico.
Olegario Carrillo Meza is a Mexican politician representing the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He served in the LV Legislature of the Congress of Sonora from 1997 to 2000.
