Hello 2025! These are the events that will mark the political agenda in Mexico

January

The next January 20, Donald Trump will take office as president of the United States, which will begin a new stage in the bilateral relationship with Mexico. His return to the White House, in addition to expectations, has caused uncertainty because he has announced that he will implement a mass deportation plan, 25% tariffs on Mexican products and has proposed declaring Mexican cartels as terrorists.

In Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum has assured that there will be cooperation but not submission to the US government, in addition to the fact that in advance, they are working on a plan to receive Mexicans who may be subject to the mass deportation plan.

Days before the arrival of Donald Trump, another hearing is planned in the United States against Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, one of the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel, who is accused of 17 crimes, including drug trafficking such as fentanyl.

In the country’s capital, the January 6 The “Agua Bienestar” program will begin, through which residents of the capital will be able to purchase jugs of purified water for 5 pesos.

In Mexico, the next January 7President Claudia Sheinbaum and her cabinet They will present the new campaign that aims to prevent drug consumptions like fentanyl, the substance 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.

This month also will begin the process for the constitution of new parties politicians.

The General Law of Political Parties (LGPP) establishes that in the month of January of the year following the presidential election, citizen organizations can carry out the process to form themselves as a national political party. To do this, they must meet requirements such as celebrating assemblies in at least 20 entities or 200 electoral districts, and that 3,000 members per state or 300 per electoral district participate in them.

He January 10, Bertha María Alcalde Lujánsister of the national leader of Morena and former Secretary of the Interior, Luisa María Alcalde, will take office as the new prosecutor of Mexico City.

February

Although in her first months as president, Claudia Sheinbaum already sent some reform initiatives, in February she is expected to send a package of 20 proposals for legislative changes.

Among the initiatives, the elimination of reelection and nepotism in the electoral reform and the prohibition of the planting of genetically modified corn stand out.

“There are around 20 that we are going to present for the next period of sessions: Acquisitions Law, Public Works Law, which have very important modifications, and other very important laws to strengthen constitutional transformations in secondary laws. All the secondary laws from Pemex and the Federal Electricity Commission are coming,” he announced on December 26.

In the first period of sessions, the president of Mexico was approved six initiatives, including article 21 of the Constitution on public security, the reform of the Organic Law of the federal Public Administration that modifies the name of the Secretariat of the Public Service by the Secretariat of Anti-Corruption and Good Government; creates the Women’s Secretariat; the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation; and the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency and modifications to seven articles on substantive equality.

March

The sale of food high in calories and sugar will be prohibited in basic, middle and higher level schools.

He March 29 The “General Guidelines for the Sale and Distribution of Prepared and Processed Foods and Beverages in the Schools of the National Educational System” will come into force, which are intended to promote the consumption of foods and beverages that promote the health of students.

Claudia Sheinbaum will experience her first March 8 “International Women’s Day”, as president of Mexico, so it is expected that there will be progress in the policy in favor of women and more concrete responses to reduce violence against them.

In his first months of government, he sent reform initiatives to guarantee substantive equality in the Constitution, the gender perspective, the right of women to a life free of violence and the eradication of the gender pay gap. The approval and implementation of the Care System is pending.

He 30th of that month judicial campaigns formally start of the people who have been or were selected to participate in the election of the members of the Judiciary to be held in June.

According to the schedule of the first judicial election, the campaigns will last 60 days.

April

The proposal to reactivate passenger transport via trains will take its first steps in the fourth month of the year. The president of Mexico announced which will be the first routes that will begin construction.

“There are the trains to the north, the Mexico-Nuevo Laredo Train and the Mexico-Nogales Train, which will begin construction next year, starting in April of next year. Let’s start with Mexico-Querétaro and Mexico-Pachuca, which is also going to start,” he reported in his conference on December 23.

In addition, this year the Saltillo-Monterrey route will be put out to tender and it is expected that progress can be made with the connection of the Interurban Train that comes from Toluca, as well as the connection from Lechería to the Felipe Ángeles Airport.

The Chalco-Santa Martha elevated trolleybus, which will benefit 3 million citizens, is expected to open next April, although three stations remain pending.

“There was a delay problem because a drainage pipe was found; They had to move it, they had to do a bypass and that changed the project a little and had its complications, but now, that has already been resolved and now, they are practically moving forward,” reported Sheinbaum.

And to promote sports, the president announced that the March 6 will be done a massive boxing class, which will be promoted by the boxer from Guadalajara, Saúl “El Canelo” Álvarez.

May:

campaigns of PJ candidates end

He May 28 The 60-day period will conclude in which aspiring judges, magistrates and ministers will be able to carry out campaigns seeking the vote of Mexicans to integrate the Judicial Branch.

As for other elected positions, the campaigns will conclude on Wednesday to give way to a closed period and the following Sunday, election day will take place.

Furthermore, the May 3 commemorates the 5th anniversary of collapse of an elevated section of Metro Line 12 and two carss, leaving 26 dead and more than 100 injured. Accident that occurred while Claudia Sheinbaum was Head of Government of Mexico City.

June:

Election of judges, magistrates and ministers

On June 1, the elections for the first judicial electoral process in Mexico will be held, in which nine ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) will be elected; two magistrates of the Superior Chambers and 15 regional magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF), as well as five people who will make up the Judicial Disciplinary Court, 464 Circuit magistrates and 386 District judges.

This electoral process will take place after in 2024, Congress endorsed the judicial reform promoted by the former president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

In sports matters and in view of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, this month the Club World Cup 2025which will be played from June 14 to July 13 and whose inauguration will take place at the Azteca Stadium, which is currently being remodeled.

Thus, Mexico is getting ready for the 2026 World Cup, which will officially begin on Thursday, June 11, 2026, an event in which the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City will go down in FIFA World Cup history by being the first in host the opening match three times.

July: women’s vote in Mexico

He July 3 are commemorated 72 years since Mexican women were able to vote in Mexico. In 1953 the Constitution was reformed so that they could exercise their right to elect their rulers, but it was in 1955 when they went to the polls.

The fact is framed in the fact that more than seven decades later, Mexico has a woman in the Presidency of the Republic and 13 female governors.