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General Congress of the United Mexican States Congreso General de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos
LXVI Legislature

Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Senate of the Republic Chamber of Deputies
History
Founded	28 September 1821 (1821-09-28)
Leadership
President of the Senate	Gerardo Fernández Noroña (Morena) since 1 September 2024 (2024-09-01)
President of the Chamber of Deputies	Sergio Gutiérrez Luna (Morena) since 8 October 2024 (2024-10-08)
Structure
Seats	628 (500 Deputies) (128 Senators)

Senate political groups	Government (87) Morena (66) PVEM (14) PT (6) No party (1) Opposition (41) PAN (21) PRI (14) MC (5) No party (1)

Chamber of Deputies political groups	Government (364) Morena (253) PVEM (62) PT (49) Opposition (136) PAN (71) PRI (37) MC (27) Independent (1)
Authority	Title III, Chapter II of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States
Salary	$119,770 pesos (Senator) $99,071 pesos (Deputy)
Elections
Last Senate election	2 June 2024 (2024-06-02)
Last Chamber of Deputies election	2 June 2024 (2024-06-02)
Next Senate election	2 June 2030 (2030-06-02)
Next Chamber of Deputies election	6 June 2027 (2027-06-06)
Motto
La Patria Es Primero(The Fatherland Is First)
Meeting place

Senate Building Mexico City

San Lázaro Building Mexico City
Website
Senate website Chamber of Deputies website
Constitution
Mexican Constitution of 1917
Rules
"Organic Law of the General Congress of the United Mexican States" (Spanish) Rules for the Interior Government of the General Congress of the United Mexican States" (Spanish)

The Congress of the Union (Spanish: Congreso de la Unión, pronounced [koŋˈɡɾeso ðe lawˈnjon]), 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. It consists of two chambers: the Senate of the Republic and the Chamber of Deputies. Its 628 members (128 senators and 500 deputies) meet in Mexico City.

Structure

Main articles: Senate of the Republic (Mexico) and Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)See also: Elections in Mexico

The Congress is a bicameral body, consisting of two chambers: the Senate of the Republic and the Chamber of Deputies. Its structure and responsibilities are defined in the Third Title, Second Chapter, Articles 50 to 79 of the 1917 Constitution. The upper chamber is the Senate, Cámara de Senadores or Senado. It comprises 128 seats: 96 members are elected by plurality vote, with three members being elected in each state (two seats are awarded to the winning party or coalition and one to the first runner-up); the other 32 members are elected by proportional representation in a single country-wide constituency. Senators serve six-year terms.

The lower house is the Chamber of Deputies, or Cámara de Diputados. It has 500 seats; 300 members are elected by plurality vote and the other 200 members are elected according to proportional representation (PR), through a system of regional lists (one for each of the five constituencies established for the election by law). Deputies serve three-year terms.

The 200 PR seats are distributed generally without taking into account the 300 plurality seats (parallel voting). Since 1996, however, a party cannot get more seats overall than 8% above its result for the PR seats (a party must win 42% of the votes for the PR seats to achieve an overall majority).

There are two exceptions to that rule. A party can lose only PR seats by that rule (not plurality seats). Also, a party cannot get more than 300 seats overall (even if it has more than 52% of the votes for the PR seats).

Powers

The powers invested in Congress are defined in article 73 of the Constitution. Among its powers, Congress can admit new States into the Union, alter the allocation of powers granted to the federal government, lay and collect taxes, declare war (upon request of the Government), provide for and maintain the Union's armed forces, and coordinate economic activities.

Article 74, 75 and 76 of the Constitution state that each Chamber can address specific matters. In fact, some powers are reserved either to the Chamber of Deputies or to the Chamber of Senators, making the Congress of the Union an example of imperfect bicameralism. For example, the former can approve the federal budget submitted by the Government, while the latter has the power to analyze the foreign policy of the Government, approve or dismiss the Presidential nominations of the Attorney General, Supreme Court Justices, diplomatic agents, general consuls, and senior civil and military officials.

Permanent Committee

The Comisión Permanente del Congreso de la Unión, translated variously as the Permanent Committee or Standing Committee, is a body of 19 deputies and 18 senators that is responsible for tasks relating to the Congress when it is in recess.

Term

It is conventional to refer to each Legislature by the Roman numeral of its term. Thus, the current Congress (whose term lasts from 2024 to 2027) is known as the "LXVI Legislature"; the previous Congress (whose term lasted from 2018 to 2021) was the "LXIV Legislature", and so forth. The I Legislature of Congress was the one that met right after the Constituent Congress that enacted the 1857 Constitution.

Early in the 20th century, the revolutionary leader Francisco I. Madero popularized the slogan Sufragio Efectivo – no Reelección ("Effective suffrage, no reelection"). In keeping with that long-held principle, and until 2014, the 1917 Constitution stated that "Deputies and Senators could not be reelected for the next immediate term".

Reelection

Last election

Senate

Party		Constituency			Proportional			Total seats	+/–
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats	+/–
	National Regeneration Movement	661,068	1.18	2	21,261,577	37.50	13	55	New
	National Action Party	600,423	1.07	1	9,971,804	17.59	6	23	15
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	3,855,984	6.86	0	9,013,658	15.90	6	13	44
	Party of the Democratic Revolution	96,393	0.17	0	2,984,861	5.27	2	8	15
	Citizens' Movement	570,774	1.01	2	2,654,452	4.68	2	7	6
	Ecologist Green Party	1,198,011	2.13	0	2,528,175	4.46	2	7	3
	Labor Party	51,260	0.09	0	2,164,442	3.82	1	6	2
	Social Encounter Party	28,878	0.05	0	1,320,559	2.33	0	8	New
	New Alliance Party	593,507	1.06	0	1,307,015	2.31	0	1	0
	MORENA–PT–PES	23,754,422	42.24	53	–	–	–	–	–
	PAN–PRD–MC	14,222,046	25.29	25	–	–	–	–	–
	PRI–PVEM–PNA	7,145,869	12.71	13	–	–	–	–	–
	Independents	1,109,149	1.97	–	1,109,149	1.97	–	0	0
	Write-ins	30,568	0.05	–	31,820	0.06	–	–	–
Invalid/blank votes		2,319,489	4.12	–	2,344,357	4.14	–	–	–
Total		56,237,841	100	96	56,691,869	100	32	128	0
Registered voters/turnout		89,994,039	62.49	–	89,994,039	63.52	–	–	–
Source: INE

Of the 53 seats won by the MORENA-PT–PES alliance, 40 were taken by MORENA, 8 by the PES, and 5 by the PT

Of the 25 seats won by the PAN–PRD–MC alliance, 16 were taken by the PAN, 6 by the PRD, and 3 by the MC

Of the 13 seats won by the PRI–PVEM–PNA alliance, 7 were taken by the PRI, 5 by the PVEM, and 1 by the PNA

Chamber of Deputies

Party		District			Proportional			Total seats	+/–
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats	+/–
	National Regeneration Movement	709,840	1.27	8	20,972,573	37.25	84	189	154
	National Action Party	697,595	1.25	5	10,096,588	17.93	41	83	25
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	4,351,824	7.78	1	9,310,523	16.54	38	45	158
	Party of the Democratic Revolution	124,808	0.22	0	2,967,969	5.27	12	21	35
	Ecologist Green Party	1,429,802	2.55	0	2,695,405	4.79	11	16	31
	Citizens' Movement	268,876	0.48	0	2,485,198	4.41	10	27	1
	Labor Party	67,429	0.12	0	2,211,753	3.93	4	61	55
	New Alliance Party	705,432	1.26	0	1,391,376	2.47	0	2	8
	Social Encounter Party	54,906	0.10	0	1,353,941	2.40	0	56	48
	MORENA–PT–PES	23,513,132	42.01	210	–	–	–	–	–
	PAN–PRD–MC	14,381,872	25.70	63	–	–	–	–	–
	PRI–PVEM–PNA	6,862,372	12.26	13	–	–	–	–	–
	Independents	539,347	0.96	0	539,347	0.96	0	0	1
	Write-ins	32,625	0.06	–	32,959	0.06	–	–	–
Invalid/blank votes		2,227,573	3.98	–	2,242,615	3.98	–	–	–
Total		55,967,433	100	300	56,300,247	100	200	500	0
Registered voters/turnout		89,994,039	62.20	–	89,994,039	63.21	–	–	–
Source: INE

Of the 210 seats won by the MORENA-PT–PES alliance, 97 were taken by MORENA, 57 by the PT, and 56 by the PES

Of the 63 seats won by the PAN–PRD–MC alliance, 37 were taken by the PAN, 17 by the MC, and 9 by the PRD

Of the 13 seats won by the PRI–PVEM–PNA alliance, 6 were taken by the PRI, 5 by the PVEM, and 2 by the PNA

References

"El proyecto - Elección 2012 México: Elecciones, Candidatos a la Presidencia, encuestas electorales". Archived from the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
Constitution of 1917, articles 50, 59.
"Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Artículo 59". Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 October 2003. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
Becerra, Bertha (20 May 2014). "Habría reelección de diputados y senadores a partir del 2018". La Prensa (in Spanish). Organización Editorial Mexicana. Retrieved 1 April 2015.

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