2007 MEXICO POLITICAL AND HOLIDAY CALENDAR
(Boldface red national obligatory holidays • Elections shaded yellow)
JANUARY
1 New Year’s Day
FEBRUARY
1
Second period, First year, Ordinary Session LX Congress begins
5 Anniversary of
Constitution of 1917 (first Monday)
10 Armed Forces Day
19 Army Day
24 Flag Day
MARCH
4 78th Anniversary of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI)
18 Anniversary of the Expropriation
of the Oil Industry
19 Anniversary of the Birth of
Benito Juárez (third Monday)
APRIL
8 Easter Sunday
30 Second period, First year, Ordinary
Session of LX Congress ends
MAY
1 Labor
Day
5 Anniversary
of the Battle of Puebla
5 18th Anniversary
of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)
10 Mother’s Day
14 12th Anniversary of
the Mexico Ecologist Green Party (PVEM)
15 Teacher’s Day
20 Yucatán
— elections for governor, state legislature and 106
municipal presidents
JUNE
1 Navy Day
15 Father’s Day
24 Baja
California — see August 5 and endnote
JULY
1 Chihuahua — elections for state legislature and 67 municipal
presidents
1 Durango — elections for state legislature and 39 municipal presidents
1 Zacatecas — elections for state legislature and 57 municipal presidents
AUGUST
1 Eighth
Anniversary of the Convergence Party
5 Aguascalientes — elections for state legislature and 11 municipal presidents
5
Baja California* — elections for governor, state legislature and 5 municipal presidents
5 Oaxaca — election for state legislature
18 Birthday of President
Felipe Calderón Hinojosa
SEPTEMBER
1 President
Felipe Calderón’s First State of the Nation Address (“Informe”)
1 First period, Second year,
Ordinary Session of LX Congress begins
2 Veracruz — elections for state
legislature and 212 municipal presidents
15 First period, Second
year, V Legislative Assembly of the Federal District session begins
15 Commemoration of
the Cry for Independence (11:00 p.m.)
16 Independence Day
16 68th Anniversary of
the National Action Party (PAN)
16 Federal District Mayor
Marcelo Ebrard, first State of Government Address
OCTOBER
7 Chiapas — elections for state legislature and 118 municipal presidents
7 Oaxaca — elections for 570 municipal
presidents
14 Sinaloa
— elections for state legislature and 18 municipal presidents
NOVEMBER
11 Michoacán — elections for governor, state legislature and 113 municipal presidents
11 Puebla
— elections for state legislature and 217 municipal
presidents
11 Tamaulipas — elections for state legislature and 43 municipal
presidents
11 Tlaxcala — elections for state legislature and 60 municipal
presidents
19 Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution (third Monday)
DECEMBER
8 16th Anniversary
of the Mexican Labor Party (PT)
12 Day of Our Lady
of Guadalupe
15 First Period of the Second Year of
the Ordinary Session of the LX Congress ends
25 Christmas Day
* On January 4, 2007 the Mexican Supreme Court invalidated State of Baja California
electoral reforms that had been promulgated in October 2006 by the state’s unicameral Chamber of Deputies. The
Court struck down the amendments, including the date change to June 24, 2007 for elections, declaring the amendments
unconstitutional due to violations of legislative processes. Opposition party deputies had filed a complaint, claiming
among other things that National Action Party (PAN) legislators railroaded the state’s election law amendments
through the legislature.
