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2024 Mexican General Election
General elections are scheduled to be held in Mexico in July 2024. Voters will elect a new president to serve a six-year term, 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 128 members of the Senate. The members of the legislature elected on this date will be the first allowed to run for re-election in subsequent elections. Article 83 of the Mexican Constitution bars incumbent President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from seeking reelection. Electoral system The President is elected by first-past-the-post voting. The 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by two methods; 300 are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting, with the remaining 200 elected in a single nationwide constituency by proportional representation, with seats allocated using the simple quotient and largest remainder method. No party is allowed to hold more than 300 seats. The 128 members of the Senate are also elected by two methods, with 96 elected in 32 three-seat consti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican politician who has been serving as the 65th president of Mexico since 1 December 2018. He previously served as Head of Government of Mexico City from 2000 to 2005. Born in Tepetitán, in the municipality of Macuspana, in the south-eastern state of Tabasco, López Obrador earned a degree in political science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico following a hiatus from his studies to participate in politics. He began his political career in 1976 as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). His first public position was as director of the Indigenous Institute of Tabasco, where he promoted the addition of books in indigenous languages and the project of the Chontal ridge. In 1989, he joined the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), becoming the party's 1994 candidate for Governor of Tabasco, and national leader between 1996 and 1999. In 2000, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adán Augusto López Hernández
Adán Augusto López Hernández (born 24 September 1963) is a Mexican politician affiliated with Morena. López Hernández served as the governor of Tabasco from 1 January 2019 to 26 August 2021, when he replaced Olga Sánchez Cordero as Secretary of the Interior. Life López Hernández was born in Paraíso, Tabasco, earning a law degree from the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco in 1984. He worked as a lawyer and notary in the 1980s and 1990s, earning a master's degree from Paris II in 1987. He also served in Tabasco state government during the 1990s, briefly as the head of the Local Board of Conciliation and Arbitration and then as the deputy secretary of Government and Legal Matters. Through 2003, he was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which included a stint as the state party's secretary general. He served as the campaign coordinator for Manuel Andrade Díaz's 2000 gubernatorial bid; after the elections were annulled by the TEPJF, he positioned hims ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damián Zepeda Vidales
Damián Zepeda Vidales (born 17 November 1978) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN. As of 2013 he served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Sonora. In December 2017, he was selected as the new President of PAN after Ricardo Anaya Cortés Ricardo Anaya Cortés (Spanish: iˈkaɾðo anˈaʝa koɾˈtes born 25 February 1979) is a Mexican lawyer and politician, and a member and former president of the centre-right National Action Party (PAN). He held the positions of Federal Dep ... resigned to run in the 2018 presidential election; he served as President of PAN until August 2018. References 1978 births Living people People from Hermosillo Politicians from Sonora Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Sonora National Action Party (Mexico) politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians Universidad de Sonora alumni Members of the Congress of Sonora Deputies of the LXII Legislature of Mexico Members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatriz Paredes Rangel
Beatriz Elena Paredes Rangel (born 18 August 1953) is a Mexican politician who served as president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). She was the first woman to serve as Governor of Tlaxcala and the second woman to serve as a state governor in Mexican history. Paredes Rangel studied Sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) graduated in sociology with honoring mention in 2016 She began her political career at the age of 21 as a Tlaxcala state deputy (1974–77) and then served as advisor for the Governor of Tlaxcala (1978–80). In 1982 she was appointed Undersecretary for Agrarian Reform and from 1987 to 1992 she served as Governor of Tlaxcala. She has also served in the Chamber of Deputies, in the Senate and President Carlos Salinas appointed her Ambassador to Cuba in 1993. She was the President of the Chamber of Deputies in 2001–2002. In the 2006 Federal District election she ran for Head of Government (mayor) of Mexico City, representi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Peña Nieto
Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he previously served as Governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011, local deputy from 2003 to 2004, and Secretary of Administration from 2000 to 2002. Born in Atlacomulco and raised in Toluca, Peña Nieto attended Panamerican University, graduating with a B.A. in legal studies. After attaining a MBA from ITESM, he began his political career by joining the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1984. After serving as a public notary in Mexico City, he began an ascent through local political ranks in the late 1990s, culminating in his 2005 campaign for Governor of the State of Mexico. As governor, he pledged to deliver 608 ''compromisos'' (commitments) to his constituency to varying levels of success. His tenure was mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Ruiz Massieu
Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, (born 10 July 1972) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs following her appointment by President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2015 to which she resigned on 4 January 2017. Previously, she served as Secretary of Tourism from 2012 to 2015, having as a major achievement taking Mexico from the 15th to the 10th place for international tourist arrivals according to WTO. During President Peña Nietos transition period she was in charge of Human Rights and Transparency Affairs. She has also served two terms as Congresswoman, for the LIX and LXI Legislatures of the Mexican Congress. Personal background Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas is the daughter of José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, and niece to former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Her father served as governor for the State of Guerrero, as well as secretary general of the national executive committee of the Institut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique De La Madrid Cordero
Enrique Octavio de la Madrid Cordero (Mexico City, born 1 October 1962) is a lawyer, a public official, a columnist and Mexican politician. He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Biography He is the son of Paloma Cordero, former First Lady of Mexico, and Miguel de la Madrid, former Mexican President (1982-1988). He was a federal congressman as a member of the PRI. Enrique de la Madrid has a law degree from the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM) and has a Master's in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was a professor at ITAM ( Autonomous Technical Institute of México) from 1996-1998. Public official Among the public offices he has held are the general technical coordinator of the Presidency of the National Bank and Securities Commission (CNBV) from 1994-1996. He earned a seat as a federal congressman in 2000, serving in the Chamber of Deputies until 2003 whereupon he left office to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) 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 ( es, Partido Nacional Revolucionario, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution ( es, Partido de la Revolución Mexicana, PRM) and finally as the PRI beginning in 1946. The PNR was founded in 1929 by Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexico's paramount leader at the time and self-proclaimed (Supreme Chief) of the Mexican Revolution. The party was created with the intent of providing a political space in which all the surviving leaders and combatants of the Mexican Revolution could participate and to solve the severe political crisis caused by the assassination of President-elect Álvaro Obregón in 1928. Although Calles himself fell into political disgrace and was exiled in 1936, the party continued ruling Mexico u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Right-wing Politics
Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, authority, property or tradition.T. Alexander Smith, Raymond Tatalovich. ''Cultures at war: moral conflicts in western democracies''. Toronto, Canada: Broadview Press, Ltd, 2003. p. 30. "That viewpoint is held by contemporary sociologists, for whom 'right-wing movements' are conceptualized as 'social movements whose stated goals are to maintain structures of order, status, honor, or traditional social differences or values' as compared to left-wing movements which seek 'greater equality or political participation.' In other words, the sociological perspective sees preservationist politics as a right-wing attempt to defend privilege within the ''social hierarchy''."''Left and right: the significance of a political distinction'', Norberto Bobbio an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esteban Moctezuma
Esteban Moctezuma Barragán (born 21 October 1954 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and is currently a member of MORENA. He is a former Senator and served as Secretary of Social Development and Secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. From that position, early in January 1995, he pursued peace talks in Chiapas with the EZLN insurgents; in February the government pursued a strategy of military intervention, followed by a resumption of peace talks with the insurgents. In 2018, he was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as Secretary of Education. On 16 December 2020, Moctezuma was nominated Ambassador of Mexico to the United States and confirmed by the Senate on 16 January 2021. 1995 Zapatista Crisis With President Carlos Salinas de Gortari economic and political reforms and the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico was being propelled i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocío Nahle García
Norma Rocío Nahle García (born 14 April 1964) is a Mexican politician and petrochemical engineer, member of the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional party. She is the current Secretary of Energy in the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador since 2018; previously, she was a federal deputy for the 11th District of Veracruz, based in Coatzacoalcos Coatzacoalcos () is a major port city in the southern part of the Mexican state of Veracruz, mostly on the western side of the Coatzacoalcos River estuary, on the Bay of Campeche, on the southern Gulf of Mexico coast. The city serves as the munic ..., and Coordinator of her party's Parliamentary Group in the Chamber of Deputies. References Living people 1964 births 21st-century Mexican politicians 21st-century Mexican women politicians Morena (political party) politicians Cabinet of Andrés Manuel López Obrador Mexican Secretaries of Energy Politicians from Zacatecas Deputies of the LXIII Legislature of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Ramón De La Fuente
Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez (born 5 September 1951 in Mexico City) is a Mexican psychiatrist, academician and politician who served as Secretary of Health in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–1999) and as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1999 to 2007. He is currently a professor emeritus of Psychiatry at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Chairs the Board of the '' Aspen Institute Mexico''. On 18 February 2019 he began his term as the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations. Education De la Fuente graduated from Medical School of Medicine from the National Autonomous University in 1976 and trained in Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. When he returned to Mexico he founded the Clinical Research Unit of the Mexican Institute of Psychiatry and joined the Faculty of UNAM's School of Medicine, where he was appointed Dean in 1991. In 1995 he was also elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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