2008 MEXICO POLITICAL AND HOLIDAY CALENDAR
(Boldface red national obligatory holidays • Elections shaded yellow)
JANUARY
1 New Year’s Day
FEBRUARY
1
Second period, Second year,
Ordinary Session LX Congress begins
3 Baja
California Sur — elections for state legislature and
5 municipal presidents
3 Quintana
Roo — elections for state legislature and 8 municipal
presidents
4 Anniversary of Constitution
of 1917 (first Monday)
10 Armed Forces Day
17 Hidalgo
— election for state legislature
19 Army Day
24 Flag Day
MARCH
4 79th Anniversary of
the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
17 Anniversary of the Birth of Benito
Juárez (third Monday)
18 Anniversary of the 1938 Expropriation
of the Oil Industry
23 Easter Sunday
APRIL
30 Second period, Second year, Ordinary Session of
LX Congress ends
MAY
1 Labor Day
5
Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla
5 19th Anniversary of
the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)
10 Mother’s Day
14 13th Anniversary of the Mexico
Ecologist Green Party (PVEM)
15 Teacher’s Day
JUNE
1 Navy Day
15 Father’s Day
JULY
6 Nayarit
— elections for state legislature and 20 municipal presidents
AUGUST
1 Ninth Anniversary
of the Convergence Party
18 Birthday of President Felipe
Calderón Hinojosa
SEPTEMBER
1
President Felipe Calderón’s State of the Nation Address (“Informe”)
1 First period, Third year, Ordinary
Session of LX Congress begins
15 Commemoration of the Cry for
Independence (11:00 p.m.)
16 Independence Day
16 69th Anniversary of the National
Action Party (PAN)
28 Coahuila
— election for state legislature
OCTOBER
5 Guerrero
— elections for state legislature and 81 municipal presidents
NOVEMBER
9 Hidalgo
— elections for 84 municipal presidents
17 Anniversary of the Mexican
Revolution (third Monday)
DECEMBER
8 17th Anniversary of
the Mexican Labor Party (PT)
12 Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe
15 First Period of the Third Year of the Ordinary
Session of the LX Congress ends
25 Christmas Day
