The public spending opinion was approved in particular with 355 votes in favor, 132 against and zero abstentions, after starting at 9:20 in the morning on Wednesday, declaring a recess at 8:00 at night at the request of the different parliamentary groups, resuming and voting after 5:30 in the morning on Thursday, after the presentation of 1,733 reservations through 300 speakers.
With the vote in favor, adjustments were approved for the Judiciary, INE and FGR to benefit the areas of Health, Science and Technology, Environment, Education and Agriculture, after the presentation of reservations by deputies Gabriela Benavides Cobos of the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico, and Merilyn Gómez Pozos, of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
With this vote, the discussion of the 2026 Economic Package in Congress culminates, nine days before its deadline. This will come into force as of January 1 of the following year, after it is published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) with its respective changes with respect to the proposal of the federal government through the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP).
641 million pesos were reallocated to the Administrative Branches, Agriculture and Rural Development; Public Education, 10,842.6 million; Labor and Social Security, 319 million pesos; Environment and Natural Resources, 1,500 million pesos; Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, 2,500 million, and Culture, 1,985.5 million.
These resources come from reductions of 17,788.1 million pesos to the Autonomous Branches: Judicial Branch for 15,805 million; National Electoral Institute, 1,000 million, National Human Rights Commission for 50 million and Attorney General’s Office of the Republic for 933 million.
Benavides Cobos mentioned that the purpose is to increase the budget of CONANP, which currently manages 232 protected natural areas, covering 99.3 million hectares in which the country’s biodiversity is protected and generates important ecosystem services, to improve the management of these areas and increase support for the communities that live in them.
Fidel Daniel Chimal García, of the National Action Party (PAN), expressed that the expansions that are being given to the budget in environmental matters are insufficient. “This expansion is not enough to achieve results that lead us to have innovation, in order to protect the Protected Natural Areas.”
Meanwhile, Gómez Pozos commented that education is reinforced because that is where all transformation begins. “A country that educates is a country that advances, grows and becomes empowered; investing in knowledge is investing in freedom,” he said.
Part of the reallocation for Education was to restore 56% of the budget of the University of Guadalajara, which is equivalent to more than 4,000 million pesos, “which will allow 150,000 students to continue their studies and the educational institution will continue to be one of the strongest budget-wise in Latin America,” explained deputy Claudia Gabriela Salas Rodríguez, from Movimiento Ciudadano.
The approved Budget contemplates 10.19 trillion pesos, which implies an increase of 891,667 million pesos, and a real increase of 5.9% compared to that approved for 2025. It foresees that economic growth for next year will be between 1.8 and 2.8%, and a budget deficit of 1.3 trillion.
“Each peso of the 10,193 billion that make up this proposal is aimed at transforming resources into well-being, planning into justice and efficiency into hope. At the heart of this project are the people,” commented Gómez Pozos when presenting the opinion in the plenary session, and highlighted that the priority axes are well-being, security, health, education and infrastructure.
Likewise, the reservation to article 22 Section II, III and V first paragraph of the opinion was accepted, in order to integrate a disaggregation that indicates the LGBTT population served by the budget programs.
With information from Carina García.
