LXIV_Legislature_of_the_Mexican_Congress

LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress

LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress

Legislature of the Mexican Congress, 2018–2021


The LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress was the meeting of the Mexican Congress of the Union that convened on 1 September 2018 and ended on 31 August 2021. It is composed of the 500 federal deputies and 128 senators elected in the 2018 Mexican general election. While the deputies served only in the LXIV Legislature, the senators, elected to six-year terms, also formed the Senate in the LXV Legislature, which convened in 2021.

Quick Facts Overview, Legislative body ...

Highlights

The LXIV Legislature is noteworthy for its gender parity, with the most women ever elected to the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Women will hold 49 percent of the seats in the Senate, a national record and the third-highest percentage of women in a current national upper house, according to data collected by the Interparliamentary Union.[1] The Chamber of Deputies will have the fourth-highest percentage of women among lower houses.[2] In the Chamber of Deputies, this was the first election to be conducted after a 2017 redistricting of the federal electoral districts conducted by the National Electoral Institute. In reapportionment, Mexico City lost three seats, while seven states added a seat and four states lost one seat each.[3] On August 23, the PRI, PRD, PAN and Movimiento Ciudadano announced they would challenge the allocation of proportional representation seats in the Chamber of Deputies, saying MORENA is overrepresented.[4]

Composition

Senate

More information Party, SenatorsRelative majority ...

Chamber of Deputies

More information Party, DeputiesRelative majority ...

Leadership

Senate

President of the Senate
Marti Batres
(MRN), 2018–2019
Mónica Fernández
(MRN), 2019–2020
Eduardo Ramírez
(MRN), 2020–2021

Presiding

Party Leadership

Chamber of Deputies

President of the Chamber of Deputies
Porfirio Muñoz Ledo (MRN), 2018–2019
Laura Rojas Hernández (PAN), 2019–2020
Dulce María Sauri (PRI), 2020–2021

Presiding

Party Leadership

Membership

Senate

The Senate is composed of 128 seats; three each elected from each of Mexico's 32 federative entities for a total of 96, as well as 32 proportional representation seats.

Senators by proportional representation

Chamber of Deputies

The Chamber of Deputies is composed of 500 seats, elected from 300 single-member federal electoral districts and 40 apiece from five proportional representation electoral regions.

Deputies by proportional representation

Chamber composition by proportional representation
More information Region, Deputy ...

Notes

  1. Alternate to Angélica García Arrieta, who died in office on 22 December 2018.
  2. Alfonso Durazo Montaño took leave on November 8, 2018, in advance of being appointed by President López Obrador to head the new Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection.
  3. Sworn in on February 28, 2019, after José Antonio Álvarez Lima took leave to accept his appointment to head Canal Once. Died on October 24, 2020, of COVID-19.
  4. Replaced Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas on January 2, 2019, after Moreno Valle died in the 2018 Puebla helicopter crash.
  5. Miguel Acundo González died of COVID-19 on September 16, 2020.
  6. Roger Aguilar Salazar, who was elected to the seat, died on September 5, 2018, and was never sworn in. Interian Gallegos was sworn in on September 13.

References

  1. Balderas, Óscar (23 July 2018). "México gana 'medalla de bronce' por alcanzar la equidad de género en el Senado". HuffPost México (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. "México entra al top 5 de los Congresos con mayor equidad". Capital (in Spanish). 23 July 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  3. López Ponce, Jannet (16 March 2017). "Aprueba el INE nuevos distritos electorales". Milenio (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  4. López, Lorena (23 August 2018). "Oposición impugnará reparto de curules en el Congreso". Milenio (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 August 2018.

See also


Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article LXIV_Legislature_of_the_Mexican_Congress, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.