2005 MEXICO POLITICAL AND HOLIDAY CALENDAR

 

(Boldface national obligatory holidays • State elections shaded yellow)

 

JANUARY

 

1          New Year’s Day

 

FEBRUARY

 

1          Second period of the second year of the Ordinary

            Session of the LIX Congress begins (ends April 30)

 

5          Anniversary of Constitution of 1917

 

6          Baja California Sur — elections for governor, state legislature and five municipal presidents

 

6          Guerrero — election for governor

 

6          Quintana Roo — elections for governor, state legislature and eight municipal presidents

 

10        Armed Forces Day

 

19        Army Day

 

20        Hidalgo — elections for governor and state

            legislature

 

24        Flag Day

 

MARCH

 

4          76th Anniversary of the Institutional Revolutionary

            Party (PRI)

 

18        Anniversary of the Expropriation of the Oil Industry

 

21       Anniversary of the birth of Benito Júarez

 

27        Easter Sunday

 

APRIL

 

1        Inauguration of the Governor of Guerrero

 

1        Inauguration of the Governor of Hidalgo

 

5        Inauguration of the Governor of Quintana Roo

 

6        Inauguration of the Governor of Baja California

          Sur

 

10      Colima — special election for governor (Governor

         Gustavo Vázquez Montes was killed in a February

         plane crash)

 

30        Second period of the second year of the Ordinary

            Session of the LIX Congress ends

 

MAY

1          Labor Day

5         Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla

 

5          16th Anniversary of the Democratic Revolution Party

            (PRD)

 

10        Mother’s Day

 

14        Tenth Anniversary of the Mexico Ecologist Green

            Party (PVEM)

 

15        Teacher’s Day

 

JUNE

 

1          Navy Day

 

15        Father’s Day

 

JULY

 

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

 

3          State of Mexico — election for governor

 

3          Nayarit — elections for governor, state legislature and 20 municipal presidents

 

AUGUST

 

1         Sixth Anniversary of the Convergence Party

 

SEPTEMBER

 

1          President Vicente Fox’s Fifth State of the Union Address (“Informe”)

 

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

  

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

 

15      Inauguration of the Governor of the State of Mexico

 

16       Independence Day

 

16       66th Anniversary of the National Action Party (PAN)

 

18      Inauguration of the Governor of Nayarit

 

25      Coahuila — elections for governor, state

         legislature and 38 municipal presidents

 

OCTOBER

 

2         Guerrero — elections for state legislature and 76

           municipal presidents

 

NOVEMBER

 

13       Hidalgo — elections for 84 municipal presidents

 

20       Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution

 

DECEMBER

 

1         Inauguration of the Governor of Coahuila

 

8         14th 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 LIX Congress ends

25      Christmas Day