nd compulsory (but not enforced)

Executive branch: chief of state: President Vicente FOX Quesada (since 1
December 2000); note - the president is both the chief of state and head
of government election results: Vicente FOX Quesada elected president;
percent of vote - Vicente FOX Quesada (PAN) 42.52%, Francisco LABASTIDA
Ochoa (PRI) 36.1%, Cuauhtemoc CARDENAS Solorzano (PRD) 16.64%, other
4.74% elections: 2 July 2000 (next to be held NA July 2006) cabinet:
Cabinet appointed by the president; note - appointment of attorney
general requires consent of the Senate head of government: President
Vicente FOX Quesada (since 1 December 2000); note - the president is
both the chief of state and head of government

Legislative branch: bicameral National Congress or Congreso de la
Union consists of the Senate or Camara de Senadores (128 seats; 96 are
elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms, and 32 are allocated
on the basis of each party's popular vote) and the Federal Chamber of
Deputies or Camara Federal de Diputados (500 seats; 300 members are
directly elected by popular vote to serve three-year terms; remaining
200 members are allocated on the basis of each party's popular vote,
also for three-year terms) election results: Senate - percent of vote
by party - NA%; seats by party - PRI 60, PAN 46, PRD 15, PVEM 5, PT 1,
CD 1; Chamber of Deputies - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by
party - PRI 211, PAN 207, PRD 50, PVEM 16, PT 8, PSN 3, PAS 2, CD 1,
independents 2 elections: Senate - last held 2 July 2000 for all of the
seats (next to be held NA 2006); Chamber of Deputies - last held 2 July
2000 (next to be held NA 2003)

Judicial branch: Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia
(judges are appointed by the president with consent of the Senate)

Political parties and leaders: Convergence for Democracy or CD [Dante
DELGADO Ranauro]; Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI [Dulce Maria
SAURI Riancho]; Mexican Green Ecological Party or PVEM [Jorge Emilio
GONZALEZ Martinez]; National Action Party or PAN [Luis Felipe BRAVO
Mena]; Party of the Democratic Revolution or PRD [Amalia GARCIA Medina];
Party of the Nationalist Society or PSN [Gustavo RIOJAS Santana]; Social
Alliance Party or PAS [Guillermo CALDERON Dominguez]; Workers Party or PT
[Alberto ANAYA Gutierrez]

Political pressure groups and leaders: Confederation of Employers of
the Mexican Republic or COPARMEX; Confederation of Industrial Cham