Jump to content

List of mayors of Mexico City

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Head of Government of Mexico City
Jefatura de Gobierno de la Ciudad de México
Current seal of the Head of Government Office
Coat of Arms of Mexico City
Incumbent
Martí Batres
since June 16, 2023
AppointerPopular vote
Term length6 years, non-renewable
Inaugural holderCuauhtémoc Cárdenas
FormationDecember 5, 1997
Websitewww.cdmx.gob.mx (in Spanish)
Politics of Mexico
Federal government
Executive
Legislature
Judiciary
Elections
Political parties
Administrative divisions
Foreign relations
flag Mexico portal

The Head of Government (Spanish: Jefe/Jefa de Gobierno) wields the executive power in Mexico City. The Head of Government serves a six-year term, running concurrently with that of the President of the Republic. Mexico City, or CDMX, is the seat of national government, and is largely contiguous with the core of the sprawling Mexico City conurbation.

Background

[edit]

According to Article 122 of the Constitution, "the Head of Government of the Federal District shall be responsible for executive power and public administration in the district and shall be represented by a single individual, elected by universal, free, direct, and secret suffrage."

The title is commonly rendered in English as "Mayor of Mexico City" but in reality the position does not correspond exactly to the mayor of a municipality. Even though the position is called Head of Government, it has the rank of governor of a state and has a seat at the National Governors Conference.

For the greater part of the 20th century, the D.F. was administered directly by the President of the Republic, who delegated his authority to an appointed Head of the Federal District Department, known more commonly (and tersely) as the Regente ("Regent" in English). This non-democratic imposition was a source of constant and often bitter resentment among the inhabitants of Mexico City. Under the reforms of the state introduced by presidents Carlos Salinas and Ernesto Zedillo, the Regent was replaced by the first directly elected Head of Government in 1997.

On July 6, 1997, with a 47.7% share of the vote in an eight-candidate race, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas won the first direct Head of Government election (this first term was to last only three years, to bring the office into line with the presidential succession). Cárdenas later resigned to compete in the 2000 presidential campaign and left in his place Rosario Robles, who served out the remainder of his term as the first person to govern Mexico City.

The Head of Government elected for the 2000–2006 term was Andrés Manuel López Obrador, elected with 39% of the popular vote in the same election that saw Vicente Fox of the PAN win the presidency. López Obrador was temporarily removed from office by the federal Congress on April 7, 2005 and was replaced, on an interim basis for a period of slightly over two weeks, by his secretary of government, Alejandro Encinas. See desafuero of AMLO.

All the Heads of the Federal District Department were members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and all the Heads of Government of the Federal District are from center-left parties or party coalitions.

List of governors of the Federal District's territory from 1824 to 1997

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District (before the formal declaration)

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District

[edit]

Governors Mexico Department (Centralist Era)

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District (Reinstatement)

[edit]

City Council of Mexico (U.S. Invasion)

[edit]

Head of the Federal District (U.S. Occupation)

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District (Reinstatement)

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District (Constitution of 1857)

[edit]

Governors of the Department of Mexico (War of the Reform)

[edit]

Conservatives

Governors of the Federal District (Constitution of 1857)

[edit]

Governors of the Department of Mexico (2nd Empire)

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District (Constitution of 1857, Restored Republic)

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District (Constitution of 1857, Madero Revolution)

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District (Constitution of 1857, Government of Victoriano Huerta)

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District (Constitution of 1857 Constitutionalist Revolution)

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District (Constitution of 1857, the Government Conventional)

[edit]

Governor of Valle de Mexico (Const. 1857, Constitutional Government)

[edit]
  • Gen. Cesar Lopez de Lara: August 3, 1915 (By the decrees of 3/12/1914 based on the Plan of Guadalupe, federal capital city of Veracruz and January 5, 1917 decree establishing the capital in the city of Querétaro. The changes of residence were never ratified by Congress)

Governors of the Federal District (Constitution of 1917)

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District (Carrancistas)

[edit]

Governors of the Federal District (Obregon)

[edit]

Heads of the Federal District Department (Regents 1929-1940)

[edit]

Governor of Federal District (Regents)

[edit]

Heads of the Federal District Department (Regents)

[edit]

Heads of government of the Federal District/Mexico City

[edit]
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Political Party
1 Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
(born 1934) 		5 December 1997 28 September 1999 Party of the Democratic Revolution
2 Rosario Robles
(born 1956) 		29 September 1999 4 December 2000 Party of the Democratic Revolution
3 Andrés Manuel López Obrador
(born 1953) 		5 December 2000 29 July 2005 Party of the Democratic Revolution
4 Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez
(born 1954) 		2 August 2005 4 December 2006 Party of the Democratic Revolution
5 Marcelo Ebrard
(born 1959) 		5 December 2006 4 December 2012 Party of the Democratic Revolution
6 Miguel Ángel Mancera
(born 1966) 		5 December 2012 29 March 2018 Party of the Democratic Revolution
7 José Ramón Amieva
(born 1972) 		29 March 2018 4 December 2018 Party of the Democratic Revolution
8 Claudia Sheinbaum
(born 1962) 		5 December 2018 16 June 2023 National Regeneration Movement
9 Martí Batres
(born 1967) 		16 June 2023 National Regeneration Movement

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Estrada, David. "URUCHURTU, EL REGENTE DE HIERRO". davidestrada.org (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "¿Los conociste?, ¿los recuerdas? Ellos fueron los regentes y jefes de Gobierno CDMX". Sopitas.com (in Spanish). 5 December 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  3. ^ "Falleció Alfonso Corona del Rosal, ex líder del PRI". El Universal (in Spanish). 31 Dec 2000. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  4. ^ "Octavio Sentíes Gómez 1915-1996, veracruzano distinguido | Versiones" (in Spanish). Versiones. 29 Sep 2016. Archived from the original on 31 August 2020. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_mayors_of_Mexico_City&oldid=1238398351"