Mid-Term Congressional Elections in Mexico Will Be on June 7th Allan Wall - MexiData.info
go to original March 25, 2015

On June 7th, 2015, Mexico is scheduled to hold its mid-term congressional elections. Analysis of the Mexican Congress is important to any serious study of Mexican politics.

The Mexican political system runs on a six-year schedule, in contrast to the U.S.A., which runs on a four-year cycle.

In the U.S. there are presidential elections every four years, the latest having been in 2012 and the next scheduled for 2016. At the halfway point between each presidential election, congressional mid-term elections are held, the last ones having been in 2014.

In Mexico, the president is elected every six years, the last election having been held in 2012 and the next one scheduled for 2018. Mexican mid-term congressional elections are thus held at the halfway-point between presidential elections, three years after the previous one and three years before the next.

Thus 2015 is the year to hold mid-term elections for the lower house of Congress, which are scheduled for June 7th. In Mexico, elections are held on Sundays, whereas in the U.S. they are on Tuesdays.

This mid-term vote can be considered a referendum on the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto. Working with the current Congress, his administration has accomplished several reforms, including the energy reform, but it is under fire for its handling of the Iguala Atrocity and other issues.

There are ten Mexican political parties involved in the forthcoming mid-term elections. They are:

• Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI, Peña Nieto’s party)
• Partido Acción Nacional (PAN, the party of previous presidents Calderon and Fox)
• Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD, Mexico's principal left-wing party)
• Partido del Trabajo
• Partido Verde Ecologista de México (PVEM, the Green Party)
• Movimiento Ciudadano
• Nueva Alianza
• Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (MORENA, the party of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, or AMLO)
• Partido Humanista
• Partido Encuentro Social

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Related: Elections in Mexico and the US: Comparisons and Contrasts (Allan Wall)

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