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Politics of Mexico Política de México | |
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Polity type | Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic |
Constitution | Political Constitution of the United Mexican States |
Legislative branch | |
Name | Congress of the Union |
Type | Bicameral |
Meeting place | Legislative Palace of San Lázaro |
Upper house | |
Name | Senate of the Republic |
Presiding officer | Ana Lilia Rivera, President of the Senate of the Republic |
Lower house | |
Name | Chamber of Deputies |
Presiding officer | Marcela Guerra Castillo, President of the Chamber of Deputies |
Executive branch | |
Head of state and government | |
Title | President |
Currently | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
Appointer | Direct popular vote |
Cabinet | |
Name | Cabinet of Mexico |
Leader | President |
Appointer | President |
Headquarters | National Palace |
Ministries | 19 |
Judicial branch | |
Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation | |
Chief judge | Norma Lucía Piña Hernández |
Federal Electoral Tribunal | |
Chief judge | Felipe Alfredo Fuentes Barrera |
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The politics of Mexico function within a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic whose government is based on a multi-party congressional system, where the President of Mexico is both head of state and head of government. The federal government represents the United Mexican States and is divided into three branches: executive, legislative and judicial, as established by the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, published in 1917. The constituent states of the federation must also have a republican form of government based on a congressional system as established by their respective constitutions.[1]
The executive power is exercised by the executive branch, which is headed by the President, advised by a cabinet of secretaries that are independent of the legislature. Legislative power is vested upon the Congress of the Union, a two-chamber legislature comprising the Senate of the Republic and the Chamber of Deputies. Judicial power is exercised by the judiciary, consisting of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, the Council of the Federal Judiciary and the collegiate, unitary and district tribunals.