The president of the Senate (Spanish: ''Presidente de la Cámara de Senadores'') is the
presiding officer of the
Mexican Senate
The Senate of the Republic, ( es, Senado de la República) constitutionally Chamber of Senators of the Honorable Congress of the Union ( es, Cámara de Senadores del H. Congreso de la Unión), is the upper house of Mexico's bicameral Congre ...
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The incumbent president is Senator
Olga Sánchez Cordero
Olga María del Carmen Sánchez Cordero Dávila (born 16 July 1947) is a Mexican politician and former jurist. She was the Secretariat of the Interior, Secretary of the Interior of Mexico, and the first woman to ever hold this position. She pre ...
.
The Senate of Mexico, at the beginning of each annual legislative session, elects an executive board (Mesa Directiva) from among its 128 members. The executive board comprises a president, three vice-presidents, and four secretaries, elected by an absolute majority of the senators. The president, and other members of the executive board may be re-elected for the following year without restriction. The president of the executive board also serves as the President of the Senate.
Although the President of the Senate is the presiding officer of the upper house of the
Mexican Congress
The Congress of the Union ( es, Congreso de la Unión, ), formally known as the General Congress of the United Mexican States (''Congreso General de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos''), is the legislature of the federal government of Mexico cons ...
, the
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is the President of Congress as a whole.
Presidents of the Senate 1824-1857
Presidents of the Senate since 1874
List of presidents of the Gran Comisión 1877-2000
References
Presidents of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
Congress of the Union
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