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The President
of Mexico is directly elected every 6 years by direct, popular, universal suffrage
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The President is both head
of state and head of government as well as head of government and the Supreme Commander of the Mexican armed forces
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The Lower Chamber
is made up of 500 representatives, all of whom are renewed every three years.
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Political parties:
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), National Action Party (PAN), Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Green Ecological
Party (PVEM), Labor Party (PT), and several small parties.
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The current president
is Felipe Calderón he was elected on December 1, 2006. Calderón is part of
the PAN Party (conservative).
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As of 2007 poll,
36% of Mexicans still believed the election was fraudulent or that there were serious irregularities. In contrast,
the same poll indicated that 54% of respondents considered that there was no fraud in the election.
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Elections
are usually held on the first Sunday of July. Voters have to be 18 and older. Voting in Mexico is compulsary but
it is not enforced.
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