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2009 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, Ordinary Session
LX Congress begins
1 Quintana
Roo – Special municipal election
for Tulum*
2 Anniversary
of Constitution of 1917
(first Monday)
10 Armed Forces
Day
19 Army Day
24 Flag Day
MARCH
4 80th Anniversary
of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
16 Anniversary of the Birth of Benito Juárez (third Monday)
18 Anniversary
of the 1938 Expropriation of the Oil Industry
APRIL
9 Holy Thursday
10 Good Friday
12 Easter Sunday
30 Second period, Third year,
Ordinary Session of LX Congress ends
MAY
1 Labor Day
5
Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla
5 20th Anniversary
of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)
10 Mother’s
Day
14 14th Anniversary
of the Mexico Ecologist Green Party (PVEM)
15 Teacher’s
Day
JUNE
1 Navy Day
15 Father’s
Day
JULY
5
Midterm federal elections for the
LXI Chamber of Deputies [500 members]
5 Campeche – elections for governor, state legislature and 11 municipal presidents
5 Colima – elections for governor, state legislature and 10 municipal presidents
5 Federal District – elections for Legislative Assembly and 16 delegation chiefs
5 Guanajuato – elections for state legislature and 46 municipal presidents
5 Jalisco – elections for state legislature and 125 municipal presidents
5 México (State of México) – elections for state legislature and 125 municipal presidents
5 Morelos – elections for state legislature and 33 municipal presidents
5 Nuevo León – elections for governor, state legislature and 51 municipal presidents
5 Querétaro – elections for governor, state legislature and 18 municipal presidents
5 San Luis Potosí – elections for governor, state legislature and 58 municipal presidents
5 Sonora – elections for governor, state legislature and 72 municipal presidents
AUGUST
1 Tenth 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,
Ordinary Session of LXI Congress begins
15 Commemoration
of the Cry for Independence (11:00 p.m.)
16 Independence
Day
16 70th Anniversary
of the National Action Party (PAN)
OCTOBER
18 Coahuila – elections for 38 municipal presidents
18
Tabasco – elections for state
legislature and 17 municipal presidents
NOVEMBER
