LXVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress
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| Legislative body | Congress of the Union | ||||
| Term | 1 September 2024 – 31 August 2027 | ||||
| Election | 2 June 2024 | ||||
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| Members | 128 senators | ||||
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| Members | 500 deputies | ||||
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The LXVI Legislature of the Congress of the Union (66th Congress) is the current session of the legislative branch of Mexico, composed of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. It convened on 1 September 2024, and will end on 31 August 2027,[1] covering the final month of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's term in office and the first three years of Claudia Sheinbaum's presidency.
Both chambers of Congress were elected in the 2024 general election. There were three competing forces: the Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition, consisting of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the Labor Party (PT), and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM); the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition, comprising the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD); and the Citizens' Movement (MC), the only party to run without allies.
Sigamos Haciendo Historia won a supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies. The coalition fell three seats short of a supermajority in the Senate, but defections by the two senators elected for the PRD on 28 August closed the shortfall to one.[2]
Major events
[edit]- 29 August 2024: Members-elect are sworn in. Gerardo Fernández Noroña is elected President of the Senate and Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández is elected President of the Chamber of Deputies for the first session of the legislature.[3]
- 1 September 2024: Legislature convenes.
- 10 September 2024: Protesters opposing the judicial reform bill storm the Senate building, temporarily halting the session discussing the reforms.[4] The Senate reconvenes in its former premises and passes the bill by an 86–41 vote at around 04:00 CST the following morning.[5]
- 25 September 2024: The Senate voted 86–42 on a constitutional amendment that transfers the control of the National Guard to the Secretariat of National Defense.[6]
- 1 October 2024: Claudia Sheinbaum becomes President of Mexico.
- 5 October 2024: President of the Chamber of Deputies Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández dies.
- 8 October 2024: Sergio Gutiérrez Luna is elected President of the Chamber of Deputies.[7]
- 9 October 2024: The Senate unanimously approves a constitutional amendment aimed at ensuring that the minimum wage increases above inflation.[8]
- 16 October 2024: The Senate unanimously approves a constitutional amendment that enables the State to reclaim the right to provide passenger train transportation.[9]
- 16 October 2024: The Senate voted 86–39 on an energy reform bill that reestablishes the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and Pemex as public entities and mandates that the CFE retains a 54% share of electricity generation.[10]
- 30 October 2024: The Chamber of Deputies voted 343–129 on a constitutional amendment that enshrines constitutional supremacy, allowing legal challenges to constitutional amendments only on procedural grounds.[11]
Party summary
[edit]These tables relate to the composition of the Senate of the Republic and the Chamber of Deputies at the start of the LXVI Legislature and their current makeup, highlighting the changes in party affiliation that have occurred during the legislature.
Senate
[edit]| Party | Start of Legislature |
Current seats |
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| National Regeneration Movement | 66 | 66 | 
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| National Action Party | 22 | 21 |  1
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| Institutional Revolutionary Party | 15 | 14 | 1
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| Ecologist Green Party of Mexico | 13 | 14 |  1
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| Labor Party | 6 | 6 |
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| Citizens' Movement | 5 | 5 |
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| Independents | 1 | 2 | 1
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| Total | 128 | 128 | ||
Chamber of Deputies
[edit]| Party | Start of Legislature[12] |
Current seats |
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| National Regeneration Movement | 257 | 253 | 4
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| National Action Party | 71 | 71 |
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| Ecologist Green Party of Mexico | 60 | 62 | 2
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| Labor Party | 47 | 49 | 2
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| Institutional Revolutionary Party | 36 | 37 | 1
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| Citizens' Movement | 27 | 27 |
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| Independents | 1 | 1 |
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| Party of the Democratic Revolution | 1 | 0 | 1
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| Total | 500 | 500 | ||
Leadership
[edit]Presiding officers
[edit]President of the Senate
[edit]| Session | Term | Portrait | Name | Party | |
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| 1 | 1 September 2024 – Incumbent |
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Gerardo Fernández Noroña[13] | National Regeneration Movement | |
President of the Chamber of Deputies
[edit]| Session | Term | Portrait | Name | Party | |
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| 1 | 1 September 2024 – 5 October 2024 |
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Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández[14] | National Regeneration Movement | |
| 8 October 2024[a] – Incumbent |
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Sergio Gutiérrez Luna[7] | |||
Parliamentary coordinators
[edit]| Party | Senate | Chamber of Deputies | |||
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| National Action Party | Guadalupe Murguía Gutiérrez[15] | since 2024 | Noemí Luna Ayala[16] | since 2024 | |
| Institutional Revolutionary Party | Manuel Añorve Baños[17] | since 2024 | Rubén Moreira Valdez[18] | since 2024 | |
| Labor Party | Alberto Anaya[19] | since 2024 | Reginaldo Sandoval Flores[19] | since 2024 | |
| Ecologist Green Party of Mexico | Manuel Velasco Coello[20] | since 2024 | Carlos Alberto Puente Salas[20] | since 2024 | |
| Citizens' Movement | Clemente Castañeda Hoeflich[21] | since 2024 | Ivonne Ortega Pacheco[21] | since 2024 | |
| National Regeneration Movement | Adán Augusto López[22] | since 2024 | Ricardo Monreal[23] | since 2024 | |
Senate members
[edit]Elected by state
[edit]In the list, the first two positions represent the senators from the winning two-name formula who secured a majority in the state. The third corresponds to the senator who earned a seat through first minority.
Elected by proportional representation
[edit]Chamber of Deputies members
[edit]Elected by district
[edit]Elected by proportional representation
[edit]See also
[edit]- 2024 Mexican general election
- 2024 Mexican Senate election
- 2024 Mexican Chamber of Deputies election
Notes
[edit]- ^ Served as acting president from 6–8 October 2024 and was formally elected president on 8 October.
- ^ In Campeche: Before the 2024 election, Eliseo Fernández Montufar's candidacy was revoked due to an active arrest warrant.[24] Citizens' Movement's formula secured a seat through first minority, with his alternate, Daniel Barreda Pavón, becoming the senator-elect.[25]
- ^ López Castro resigned her membership in the PRI on 29 October 2024[26] and joined MORENA two weeks later.[27]
- ^ Saucedo Reyes was elected for the PRD as part of the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition but switched allegiance to Morena on 28 August 2024.[2][28]
- ^ Fabio Beltrones was elected as part of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), but on 12 August 2024, before the start of the legislature, the party announced his exclusion from the PRI parliamentary group due to disagreements with the party leadership.[29]
- ^ In Tabasco: Rosalinda López Hernández, the senator-elect, died on 5 June 2024, before being sworn in.[30] Her alternate, Alejandra Arias Trevilla, took her place.[31]
- ^ Herrera Dagdug was elected for the PRD as part of the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition but switched allegiance to Morena on 28 August 2024.[2][28]
- ^ Yunes Márquez was granted a leave of absence on health grounds on 10 September 2024 and Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares was sworn in as his alternate.[32] Later the same day, however, Yunes Márquez returned to his seat.[33]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Was among the eight deputies who switched from Morena to the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico on 1 September 2024.[34]
- ^ Following the loss of the Party of the Democratic Revolution's registration as a federal party, on 20 September 2024, Sandoval Hernández joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party.[35]
- ^ a b c Was among the three deputies who switched from the Labor Party to Morena on 19 September 2024.[36]
- ^ a b c d e Was among the five deputies who switched from Morena to the Labor Party on 19 September 2024.[36]
- ^ a b c d e f Was among the six deputies who switched from the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico to Morena on 1 September 2024.[34]
- ^ Aguas Atlahua was murdered in Zongolica, Veracruz, on 9 December 2024.[37] His alternate, Puertos Chimalhua, was sworn in on 11 December.[38]
- ^ Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda had been assigned a seat through proportional representation but was murdered on 25 July 2024, before the start of the legislature.[39] His alternate, Juan Moreno de Haro, took his place.[40]
- ^ On 11 December 2024, the Chamber's plenary granted Vitela Rodríguez's request to vacate her seat as of 15 January 2025.[38]
References
[edit]- ^ "No habrá doble Congreso en agosto de 2024; se corrigió el error que pondría en jaque al Legislativo". Cámara de Diputados. 7 September 2023.
- ^ a b c "Mexico's ruling party edges closer to a majority in both houses of Congress after 2 senators defect". Associated Press. 28 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Diputados y Senadores Toman Protesta para la LXVI Legislatura". N+ (in Mexican Spanish). 2024-08-29. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ "Manifestantes Irrumpen en Pleno del Senado durante Discusión de Reforma Judicial". N+ (in Mexican Spanish). 2024-09-10. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ^ Cortés, Juan Carlos (11 September 2024). "Sin cambiarle una coma, la 4T en el Senado aprueba en lo particular la reforma judicial". Proceso. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
- ^ Forbes Staff (2024-09-25). "Con voto decisivo de Yunes, senadores aprueban en lo general reforma a la Guardia Nacional". Forbes México (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-27.
- ^ a b Franco, Alejandrina (2024-10-08). "Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, nuevo presidente de Cámara de Diputados tras muerte de Ifigenia". Excélsior (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-08.
- ^ Forbes Staff (2024-10-10). "Senado aprueba reforma para que salario mínimo nunca esté por debajo de la inflación". Forbes México (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- ^ "'A toda máquina': Reforma de trenes de pasajeros es aprobada por unanimidad en el Senado". El Financiero (in Spanish). 2024-10-16. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
- ^ Forbes Staff (2024-10-17). "Senado aprueba reforma que da preferencia constitucional a la CFE". Forbes México (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- ^ Jornada, La; Méndez, Fernando Camacho y Enrique (2024-10-30). "Diputados aprueban reforma de "supremacía constitucional"". La Jornada (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- ^ "Diputados y Senadores dan 'banderazo' a la nueva Legislatura con entrega del informe de AMLO". Radio Fórmula (in Mexican Spanish). 2024-09-01. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ "Gerardo Fernández Noroña será el próximo presidente de la mesa directiva del Senado; dice que "respetará a la oposición"". Animal Politico. 2024-08-28. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ "Ifigenia Martínez será presidenta de la Cámara de Diputados; entregará banda presidencial a Sheinbaum". El Financiero (in Spanish). 2024-08-28. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
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- ^ Admin (2024-08-28). "Noemí Luna, ratificada como coordinadora del Grupo Parlamentario del PAN para la LXVI Legislatura". Edomex Al Día (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ Ochoa, Por Ximena (2024-08-12). "Quién es Manuel Añorve, el legislador que seguirá al frente del PRI en el Senado". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ Ochoa, Por Ximena (2024-08-12). "PRI reelige a Rubén Moreira como coordinador en la Cámara de Diputados". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ a b Flores, Por Claudia (2024-06-15). "¿Quiénes son los nuevos coordinadores del PT para el Senado y la Cámara de Diputados?". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ a b "Partido Verde recicla a Manuel Velasco y a Carlos Puente como coordinadores en el Congreso". Animal Politico. 2024-08-22. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ a b "MC recicla coordinadores de bancadas: Ivonne Ortega en Diputados y Clemente Castañeda en el Senado". Animal Politico. 2024-08-28. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ "Designan a Adán Augusto López Hernández como coordinador de Morena en el Senado". Animal Politico. 2024-08-28. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Diputados de Morena eligen a Ricardo Monreal como coordinador de su bancada; delineará prioridades con Sheinbaum". Animal Politico. 2024-08-27. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ "Tribunal Electoral confirma cancelación de candidatura al Senado de Eliseo Fernández de Movimiento Ciudadano en Campeche". Animal Politico. 2024-05-15. Retrieved 2024-08-21.
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- ^ Martinez, Rubi (29 October 2024). "Senadora Cynthia López Castro renuncia al PRI: "Ya no es el mismo partido"". Infobae. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ^ "Cynthia López Castro: "estoy lista para trabajar en México"". Milenio. 13 November 2024.
- ^ a b Pantoja, Sara (28 August 2024). "Dos senadores del PRD se pasan a Morena". Proceso. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "El PRI saca a Manlio Fabio Beltrones de su bancada en el Senado y le advierte sobre su expulsión del partido". Animal Politico. 2024-08-12. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
- ^ "Muere Rosalinda López, hermana de Adán Augusto y esposa del gobernador Rutilio Escandón". www.proceso.com.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-08-21.
- ^ ""Va por ti Rosalinda": Alejandra Arias recibe constancia de mayoría como Senadora suplente". XeVT 104.1 FM | Telereportaje (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-08-21.
- ^ Cortés, Juan Carlos (10 September 2024). "Reforma judicial: Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez pide licencia para separarse del cargo". Proceso. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ "Senador Yunes Márquez respalda la reforma judicial". Forbes México. 10 September 2024. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ a b "Arranca apenas la Legislatura y cinco diputados federales piden licencia". MVS Noticias (in Spanish). 2024-09-02. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ García, Carina (2024-09-20). "Extinción del PRD da una diputada más al PRI". ADNPolítico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ a b Herrera, Por Olivia Vázquez (2024-09-20). "Morena y PT intercambian diputados; ellos son los ocho legisladores que brincaron de bancada". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ Salvador, Cinthia (10 December 2024). "Confirman muerte de Benito Aguas Atlahua, diputado federal de Veracruz, tras ataque a balazos". Infobae. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ a b "Jonathan Puertos Chimalhua rindió protesta como diputado federal de la LXVI Legislatura". Cámara de Diputados. 11 December 2024.
- ^ "Muere Héctor Melesio Cuén, diputado federal electo de Fuerza y Corazón por México, tras herida de bala". El Universal (in Spanish). 25 July 2024. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
- ^ Herrera, Por Olivia Vázquez (2024-08-11). "Quién tomará la diputación de Héctor Melesio Cuén, asesinado en Sinaloa durante emboscada al 'Mayo' Zambada". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-08-29.
