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 Congress of the Union, formally known as the General Congress of the United Mexican States, is the legislature of the federal government of Mexico consisting of two chambers: the Senate of the Republic and the Chamber of Deputies. Its 628 members meet in Mexico City.
The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Congress of the Union, the bicameral parliament of Mexico. The other chamber is the Senate. The structure and responsibilities of both chambers of Congress are defined in Articles 50 to 70 of the constitution.
The Labor Party is a political party in Mexico. Founded on December 8 1990, it is a party of the left with support from diverse regional and international sectors. Its motto is National Unity, all power to the people! The party is currently led by Alberto Anaya.
The New Alliance Party is a state-level political party in Mexico founded in 2005.
General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. Voters elected a new President of Mexico to serve a six-year term, 128 members of the Senate for a period of six years and 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies for a period of three years. It was one of the largest election days in Mexican history, with most of the nation's states holding state and local elections on the same day, including nine governorships, with over 3,400 positions subject to elections at all levels of government. It was the most violent campaign Mexico has experienced in recent history, with 130 political figures killed since September 2017.
Luis Miguel Gerónimo Barbosa Huerta is a Mexican politician affiliated with MORENA and current Governor of Puebla. He was a senator of the LXII and LXIII Legislatures of the Mexican Congress, and he also served as a federal deputy between 2000 and 2003. He was a candidate for the governorship of Puebla for the coalition Juntos Haremos Historia - formed by Morena, the Labor Party (PT) and the Social Encounter Party (PES) - for the state elections of 2018 and the extraordinary elections of 2019.
Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) who serves as the Governor of Tlaxcala. Formerly she served as a member of the Labor Party (PT) as a federal deputy in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Tlaxcala; she had previously been a senator and mayor of the state capital of Tlaxcala.
Rocío Adriana Abreu Artiñano is a Mexican politician. She serves as a senator in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress from the state of Campeche, currently caucusing with MORENA.
Marisol Vargas Bárcena is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party. She represents the state of Hidalgo and the fifth electoral region in the Chamber of Deputies for the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
Cruz Pérez Cuéllar is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and a senator from Chihuahua to the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío is a Mexican politician currently affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement. He is the governor of Baja California Sur.
Social Encounter Party was a Mexican conservative political party established on the national level in 2014 and dissolved in 2018. It was part of the coalition Juntos Haremos Historia with the National Regeneration Movement and Mexico's Labor Party for the 2018 Mexican election.
Carolina Monroy del Mazo is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, currently serving as the secretary-general of the PRI and as a federal deputy to the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing the 27th Federal Electoral District of the State of Mexico.
Lucía Virginia Meza Guzmán is a Mexican politician and senator to the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress from the state of Morelos. She had previously served as a federal deputy in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress. Meza Guzmán is affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
The Constituent Assembly of Mexico City is a body formed to create a new constitution for Mexico City in the wake of the 2016 political reforms that convert Mexico City into a federative entity comparable to the 31 states; with "autonomy in all matters concerning its internal regime and its political and administrative organization." It will be installed on September 15, 2016, and must create the new constitution by January 31, 2017.
Delfina Gómez Álvarez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA). She is the head of the Secretariat of Public Education appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. She served as a senator from the State of Mexico in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. She also has served as a federal deputy and mayor.
Angélica García Arrieta was a Mexican public accountant and politician, Senator in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress, and founder of the National Regeneration Movement political party.
Gubernatorial elections were held in Mexico on June 6, 2021. Governors will be elected in the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Sonora, Campeche, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tlaxcala, and Zacatecas. The formal period of campaigning is from March 5 to June 2, 2021.
Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz is a Mexican engineer, businesswoman and politician. Since 2018, she has served as a Senator of the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress by principle of proportional representation. She belongs to the National Action Party.
