Political Electoral Reform WRITTEN BY Presidency Staff The Presidency’s Editorial Staff The Political-Electoral Reform comprises 56 initiatives submitted by various senators from all parliamentary groups proposing amendments and additions to the Mexican Constitution regarding political and electoral issues. This initiative was approved on December 13, 2013, as a result of which the Reform was declared by a vote of 18 state legislatures on January 22. As a result of other initiatives and additions to the Constitutional Reform regarding political and electoral issues: • Constitutional autonomy is granted to the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL). • The Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) becomes the National Electoral Institute (INE). • Local public electoral bodies will have a governing body comprising a president and six electoral advisors. • Senators will be able to be elected for up to two consecutive terms and Congress Representatives for up to four consecutive terms, in other words, for a maximum of 12 years in both cases consecutively. • As regards the Coalition Government, the president is authorized, at any time, to opt for a coalition government with one or more of the political parties represented in Congress. • A Prosecutor General’s Office is created (replacing the Attorney General’s Office) as an autonomous public body with a legal personality and its own assets. • Regarding the threshold for political parties, the minimum percentage required to maintain registration as a national political party will be raised from 2% to 3%. Moreover, any political party that achieves at least 3% of the total valid votes cast shall be entitled to multimember deputies. Political parties should ensure gender parity in candidacies for federal and local legislators. • The starting date of the first regular session when the president takes office will be moved forward from September 1 to August 1. • The president’s inauguration will be moved forward from December 1 to October 1. Other topics addressed include: the suspension of guarantees, the system of annulments, the powers of Congress and the creation of special prosecutors for the Attorney General’s Office (PGR).
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