2012 MEXICO POLITICAL AND HOLIDAY CALENDAR
(Boldface red national obligatory holidays • Elections shaded yellow)
JANUARY
1 New Year's Day
FEBRUARY
1 Second Period, Third Year,
of the Ordinary Session of the LXI Congress begins
6 Anniversary of Constitution of 1917 (first
Monday)
10 Armed Forces Day
19 Army Day
24 Flag Day
MARCH
4 83rd
Anniversary of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
18 Hidalgo - special elections for two municipal presidencies*
18 Anniversary of the 1938 Expropriation of the Oil Industry
19 Anniversary of the Birth of Benito Juárez (third Monday)
APRIL
5 Holy
Thursday
6 Good Friday
8 Easter Sunday
30 Second Period, Third
Year, of the Ordinary Session of the LXI Congress ends
MAY
1 Labor Day
5 Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla
5 23nd Anniversary of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)
10 Mother's Day
14 17th Anniversary of the Mexico
Ecologist Green Party (PVEM)
15 Teacher's Day
JUNE
1 Navy
Day
17 Father's Day
JULY
1 Federal elections for President, and the LXII Legislature (Senate [128 members], Chamber of Deputies
[500 members])
1 Campeche
- elections for state legislature and 11 municipal presidents
1 Chiapas - election for governor, state legislature and 118 municipal presidents
1 Colima
- elections for state legislature and 10 municipal presidents
1 Federal District - elections for Chief of Government, Legislative Assembly and 16 delegation chiefs
1 Guanajuato - elections for governor, state
legislature and 46 municipal presidents
1
Guerrero - elections for state legislature and 81 municipal presidents
1 Jalisco - elections for governor, state legislature and 125 municipal
presidents
1 México
(State of Mexico) - elections for state legislature and 125 municipal presidents
1 Morelos - elections for governor, state legislature and 33 municipal
presidents
1 Nuevo
León - elections for state legislature and 51 municipal presidents
1 Querétaro - elections for state legislature and 18 municipal presidents
1 San Luis Potosí - elections for
state legislature and 58 municipal presidents
1 Sonora - elections for state legislature and 72 municipal presidents
1 Tabasco - elections for governor, state legislature and 17 municipal
presidents
1 Yucatán
- elections for governor, state legislature and 106 municipal presidents
AUGUST
1 13th Anniversary
of the Convergence Party
18 Birthday of President Felipe Calderón
Hinojosa
SEPTEMBER
1 President
Felipe Calderón's State of the Nation Presentation ("Informe")
1 First Period, First Year, of the Ordinary Session of the LXII Congress begins
15 Commemoration of the Cry for Independence (11:00 p.m.)
16 Independence Day
16 73rd Anniversary of the National Action Party (PAN)
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
1 All Saints' Day
2
All Souls' Day (Day of the Dead)
19
Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution (third Monday)
DECEMBER
1
Inauguration of the new President of Mexico (Term: Dec. 1, 2012 to Nov. 30, 2018)
8 21st Anniversary
of the Mexican Labor Party (PT)
12 Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe
15 First Period, First Year, of the Ordinary Session of the LXII Congress ends
25 Christmas
Day
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* The State of Hidalgo held elections for 84 municipal
presidents last July 3, 2011, and subsequently the results were challenged in 29 of the mayoral races. Following review,
Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) validated 27 of the elections, whereas it ruled two of the claims were justified,
in the municipalities of Santiago Tulantepec and Xochicoatlán, and those elections were nullified.
