JANUARY
1 New Year’s Day
1
Presidential candidate registration period opens (ends January 18)
15
Absentee ballot mail deadline for Mexicans living abroad
FEBRUARY
1
Second Period, Third Year, Ordinary Session LIX Congress begins (ends April 30)
6
Anniversary of Constitution of 1917 observed (see endnote)
10 Armed Forces Day
19
Army Day
24
Flag Day
MARCH
4
77th Anniversary of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
12
State of Mexico — elections for state legislature
and 125 municipal presidents
15
Senate candidate (simple majority vote) registration begins (ends March 30)
18
Anniversary of the Expropriation of the Oil Industry
21 Anniversary of the Birth of Benito Juárez (see endnote)
APRIL
1
Senate candidate (proportional representation) registration begins (ends April 15)
1
Chamber of Deputies candidate (simple majority vote) registration begins (ends April 15)
15 Chamber of Deputies candidate (proportional
representation) registration begins (ends April 30)
16
Easter Sunday
25 Presidential Candidates'
Debate
30
Second Period, Third Year, Ordinary Session of LIX Congress ends
MAY
1 Labor Day
5
Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla
5
17th Anniversary of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)
10
Mother’s Day
14
11th Anniversary of the Mexico Ecologist Green Party (PVEM)
15
Teacher’s Day
JUNE
1
Navy Day
6
Presidential Candidates' Debate
13 Deadline for Mexican citizen Election
Observer applications
15
Father’s Day
30
Deadline for non-citizen Election Visitor applications
JULY
2
National Election Day — President, Senate [128
senators], and Chamber of Deputies [500 deputies]
2 Campeche — elections for state legislature and 11 municipal
presidents
2 Colima — elections for state legislature and 10 municipal presidents
2 Federal District (DDF) — elections for mayor, legislative assembly
and 16 delegation chiefs
2 Guanajuato — elections for governor, state legislature and
46 municipal presidents
2 Jalisco — elections for governor, state legislature and 126
municipal presidents
2 Morelos — elections for governor, state legislature and 33
municipal presidents
2 Nuevo León — elections for state legislature and 51 municipal
presidents
2 Querétaro — elections for state legislature and 18 municipal
presidents
2
San Luis Potosí — elections for state legislature and 58 municipal presidents
2 Sonora — elections for state legislature and 72 municipal presidents
2
Vicente Fox Quesada: sixth anniversary of his presidential election (his birthday, and wedding anniversary)
AUGUST
1
Seventh Anniversary of the Convergence Party
20 Chiapas — election for governor
SEPTEMBER
1 President Vicente Fox’s Sixth State of the Union Address (“Informe”)
1
First Period, First Year, Ordinary Session of LX Congress begins (ends December 15)
15
First Period, First Year, IV Legislative Assembly of the Federal District session begins (ends December 31)
15
Commemoration of the Cry for Independence (11:00 p.m.)
16 Independence
Day
16 67th Anniversary of the National Action Party (PAN)
16
Federal District Mayor Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, Sixth State of Government Address
OCTOBER
15
Tabasco — elections for governor, state legislature
and 17 municipal presidents
NOVEMBER
20 Anniversary of the Mexican
Revolution (see endnote)
DECEMBER
1 Inauguration of the President of the Republic
8
15th Anniversary of the Mexican Labor Party (PT)
12
Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe
15
First Period, First Year, Ordinary Session of LX Congress ends
25 Christmas Day
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Note: Effective
January 18, 2006 the Mexican government amended Article 74 of the Federal Labor Law, which sets obligatory national holidays. Three holidays, the Anniversary of the Constitution of 1917 heretofore celebrated
on February 5; the March 21 Anniversary of the Birth of Benito Juárez (an exception this year only); and the Anniversary of
the Mexican Revolution date of November 20, have been changed to the first Monday of February; the third Monday of March;
and the third Monday of November, respectively.
Regarding March 20 and 21 this year, as 2006 is being commemorated as the Bicentennial Anniversary of the Birth of Benito Juárez, the applicable change will not go into effect until 2007.
