Form of state and government Federal Republic President and Head of Government Andrés Manuel López Obrador (elected 1 July 2018, inaugurated 1 December 2018) next elections 2024 political system Two-chamber system of the National Congress, consisting of a Senate with 128 seats (elected for 6 years) and a Chamber of Deputies with 500 seats (elected […]
| Form of state and government | Federal Republic |
| President and Head of Government | Andrés Manuel López Obrador (elected 1 July 2018, inaugurated 1 December 2018) |
| next elections | 2024 |
| political system | Two-chamber system of the National Congress, consisting of a Senate with 128 seats (elected for 6 years) and a Chamber of Deputies with 500 seats (elected for 3 years). |
| political parties | “Partido Acción Nacional” (PAN), middle-class, Christian-democratic, strong in the north and urban centers; “Partido Revolucionario Institucional” (PRI), former state party with left-wing populist influence; “Partido de la Revolución Democrática” (PRD), left-social democratic, founded 1989 by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the first directly elected mayor of the federal district Mexico City; “Partido Verde Ecologista de México” (PVEM), Green-Ecological Party |
| right to vote | 18 years and older (compulsory voting is not enforced) |
| capital | Mexico City, 22 million inhabitants (estimated) |
| inhabitants | 125,9 million (July 2018, estimated by the CIA) |
| ethnic composition | Mestizos 60%; Indígenas 30%; “White” of European origin 9%, other 1.0% |
| religion | approx. 89% (nominal) Roman Catholic, 6% Protestant (especially churches of North American origin), others 5% |