MEXICO POLITICAL AND HOLIDAY CALENDAR 2004

 

 

JANUARY

 

1    New Year’s Day

 

1        Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes takes office as governor

 

FEBRUARY

 

5    Anniversary of Constitution of 1917

 

5    National Tax Convention begins (ending July 31)

 

10  Armed Forces Day

 

19  Army Day

 

24  Flag Day

 

MARCH

 

4    75^th Anniversary of the Institutional Revolutionary

      Party (PRI)

 

15  Second period of the first year of the Ordinary

      Session of the LIX Congress begins (ending April

      30)

 

18  Anniversary of the expropriation of the oil industry

 

21 Anniversary of the birth of Benito Júarez

 

APRIL

 

11  Easter Sunday

 

MAY

       1   Labor Day

       5   Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla

       5   14^th Anniversary of the Democratic Revolution Party

            (PRD)

 

10  Mother’s Day

 

      14  Ninth anniversary of the Mexico Ecologist Green

            Party (PVEM)

 

15  Teachers’ Day

 

16  Yucatán: elections for state legislature and 106

      municipal presidents

 

JUNE

 

1        Navy Day

 

15  Father’s Day

 

JULY

 

2    Vicente Fox Quesada: Fourth anniversary of his presidential election victory (also his birthday and third wedding anniversary)

 

4    Chihuahua: elections for governor, state legislature and 67 municipal presidents

 

4   Durango: elections for governor, state legislature and 39 municipal presidents

 

4    Zacatecas: elections for governor, state legislature and 57 municipal presidents

 

1    Aguascalientes: elections for governor, state legislature and 11 municipal presidents

 

1    Baja California: elections for state legislature and five municipal presidents

 

1    Oaxaca: elections for governor and state legislature (see October 3)

 

      1    President Vicente Fox’s Fourth State of the Union

            Address (“Informe”)

 

1    First period of the second year of the Ordinary Session of the LIX Congress begins (ending December 15)

 

5    Veracruz: elections for governor, state legislature and 212 municipal presidents

 

15  First period sessions of the second year of the III Legislative Assembly of the Federal District (DDF) (ending December 31)

 

15  Commemoration of the Cry for Independence (11:00 p.m.)

 

16  Independence Day

 

16  65^th Anniversary of the National Action Party (PAN)

 

16  Federal District (DDF) Mayor Andrés Manuel López

      Obredor gives his Fourth State of Government

      Address

 

OCTOBER

 

      3    Chiapas: elections for state legislature and 118

            municipal presidents

 

3    Oaxaca: elections for 152 municipal presidents (Oaxaca has 570 municipalities [counties], however only 152 elect mayors and councilpersons by direct popular vote.  The others are governed by “customs and practices” alternative systems, with citizens electing municipal officials during town hall meetings)

 

31  Yucatán: Special elections for municipal presidents in Akil, Quintana Roo and Tahmek (authorized by state legislature in July due to upheld challenges to the three municipal elections of May 16)

 

NOVEMBER

 

      14  Michoacán: elections for state legislature and 113

            municipal presidents

 

14  Puebla: elections for governor, state legislature

      and 217 municipal presidents

 

14  Sinaloa: elections for governor, state legislature

      and 18 municipal presidents

 

14  Tamaulipas: elections for governor, state legislature

      and 43 municipal presidents

 

14  Tlaxcala: elections for governor, state legislature

      and 60 municipal  presidents

 

20  Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution

 

DECEMBER

 

8    Anniversary of the Mexican Labor Party (PT)

 

12  Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe

 

25 Christmas Day

 

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