Country name:conventional long form: United Mexican States conventional short form: Mexico local long form: Estados Unidos Mexicanos local short form: Mexico
Government type:federal republic
Capital:name: Mexico (Distrito Federal)
Geographic coordinates: 19 26 N, 99 08 W time difference: UTC-6 (1 hour behind Washington, DC during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins first Sunday in April; ends last Sunday in October note: Mexico is divided into three time zones
Administrative divisions:31states (estados, singular - estado) and 1 federal district* (distritofederal); Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur,Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colima, DistritoFederal*, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico,Michoacan de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla,Queretaro de Arteaga, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora,Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatan, Zacatecas
Independence:16 September 1810 (declared); 27 September 1821 (recognized by Spain)
National holiday:Independence Day, 16 September (1810)
Constitution:5 February 1917
Legal system:mixtureof US constitutional theory and civil law system; judicial review oflegislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
Suffrage:18 years of age; universal and compulsory (but not enforced)
Executive branch:chiefof state: President Felipe de Jesus CALDERON Hinojosa (since 1 December2006); note - the president is both the chief of state and head ofgovernment head of government: President Felipe de Jesus CALDERON Hinojosa (since 1 December 2006) cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president; note - appointment of attorney general requires consent of the Senate elections:president elected by popular vote for a single six-year term; electionlast held on 2 July 2006 (next to be held 1 July 2012) electionresults: Felipe CALDERON elected president; percent of vote - FelipeCALDERON 35.89%, Andres Manuel LOPEZ OBRADOR 35.31%, Roberto MADRAZO22.26%, other 6.54%
Legislative branch:bicameralNational Congress or Congreso de la Union consists of the Senate orCamara de Senadores (128 seats; 96 members are elected by popular voteto serve six-year terms, and 32 seats are allocated on the basis ofeach party's popular vote) and the Federal Chamber of Deputies orCamara Federal de Diputados (500 seats; 300 members are elected bypopular vote; remaining 200 members are allocated on the basis of eachparty's popular vote; to serve three-year terms) elections:Senate - last held 2 July 2006 for all of the seats (next to be held 1July 2012); Chamber of Deputies - last held 2 July 2006 (next to beheld 5 July 2009) electionresults: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PAN52, PRI 33, PRD 26, PVEM 6, CD 5, PT 5, independent 1; Chamber ofDeputies - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PAN 207, PRD127, PRI 106, PVEM 17, CD 17, PT 11, other 15
Judicial branch:SupremeCourt of Justice or Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nacion (justices orministros are appointed by the president with consent of the Senate)Political parties and leaders:Convergencefor Democracy or CD [Luis MALDONADO Venegas]; InstitutionalRevolutionary Party or PRI [Beatriz PAREDES]; Labor Party or PT[Alberto ANAYA Gutierrez]; Mexican Green Ecological Party or PVEM[Jorge Emilio GONZALEZ Martinez]; National Action Party (Partido AccionNacional) or PAN [German MARTINEZ Cazares]; New Alliance Party (PartidoNueva Alianza) or PNA [Jorge Antonio KAHWAGI Macari]; Party of theDemocratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolucion Democratica) or PRD[Leonel COTA Montano]; Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative Party(Partido Alternativa Socialdemocrata y Campesina) or Alternativa[Alberto BEGNE Guerra]
Political pressure groups and leaders:BroadProgressive Front or FAP; Businessmen's Coordinating Council or CCE;Confederation of Employers of the Mexican Republic or COPARMEX;Confederation of Industrial Chambers or CONCAMIN; Confederation ofMexican Workers or CTM; Confederation of National Chambers of Commerceor CONCANACO; Coordinator for Foreign Trade Business Organizations orCOECE; Federation of Unions Providing Goods and Services or FESEBES;National Chamber of Transformation Industries or CANACINTRA; NationalPeasant Confederation or CNC; National Small Business Chamber orCANACOPE; National Syndicate of Education Workers or SNTE; NationalUnion of Workers or UNT; Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca orAPPO; Roman Catholic Church
International organization participation:APEC,BCIE, BIS, CAN (observer), Caricom (observer), CDB, CE (observer), CSN(observer), EBRD, FAO, G-3, G-15, G-24, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC,ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol,IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, NAFTA, NAM (observer),NEA, OAS, OECD, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR,UNIDO, Union Latina, UNITAR, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO,WMO, WTO
Flag description:threeequal vertical bands of green (hoist side), white, and red; the coat ofarms (an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake in its beak) iscentered in the white band
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