Constituent Assembly of Mexico City
Assembly elected to draft a new constitution for Mexico City in 2017
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The Constituent Assembly of Mexico City (Asamblea Constituyente de la Ciudad de México) is a body formed to create a new constitution for Mexico City in the wake of the 2016 political reforms that convert Mexico City into a federative entity comparable to the 31 states; with "autonomy in all matters concerning its internal regime and its political and administrative organisation."[1] It will be installed on September 15, 2016, and must create the new constitution by January 31, 2017.[2]
The Constituent Assembly is based at the Casona de Xicoténcatl, the former home of the Senate of the Republic, under an agreement between the government of Mexico City and the Senate.[3]
Composition
The Constituent Assembly consists of 100 members, which were allocated as follows in the decree of political reform of Mexico City published on January 29, 2016, in the Diario Oficial de la Federación:[2]
- 60 members, chosen in elections organised by the National Electoral Institute, using party list proportional representation
- 14 senators, selected by a two-thirds vote of the Senate of the Republic
- 14 deputies, selected by a two-thirds vote of the Chamber of Deputies
- 6 members designated by the president (Enrique Peña Nieto)
- 6 members designated by the Chief of the Government of the Federal District (Miguel Ángel Mancera)
Elected members
The elections for 60 of the 100 seats in the Constituent Assembly were held on June 5, 2016.[4] The 100 members are as follows:[5]
Senatorial designees
- Raúl Cervantes Andrade
- María Lorena Marín Moreno[note 1]
- Enrique Burgos García
- Lisbeth Hernández Lecona
- Joel Ayala Almeida
- Yolanda de la Torre Valdez
- National Action Party (PAN)
Deputy designees
- National Action Party (PAN)
- Federico Döring Casar
- María Guadalupe Cecilia Romero Castillo
- Santiago Taboada Cortina
- Cecilia Guadalupe Soto González
- Jesús Salvador Valencia Guzmán
- Citizens' Movement (MC)
- René Cervera García
- New Alliance Party (PANAL)
- María Eugenia Ocampo Bedolla
- Social Encounter Party (PES)
- To be designated[6]
Presidential designees
- Claudia Aguilar Barroso
- Manuel Enrique Díaz Infante
- Augusto Gómez Villanueva (President of the Constituent Assembly)[7]
- Fernando Lerdo de Tejada
- María Beatriz Pagés Llergo Rebollar
- Claudia Pastor Bobadilla
Mayoral designees
- Olga Sánchez Cordero
- Claudia Jusidman
- Ana Laura Magaloni
- Alejandro Chanona
- Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
- Alejandro Encinas[8]
Final composition
| Party | Votes | % | Elected seats |
Designees | Total seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Regeneration Movement | 652,286 | 33.06 | 22 | 1 | 23 |
| Party of the Democratic Revolution | 572,043 | 28.99 | 19 | 10 | 29 |
| National Action Party | 203,843 | 10.3 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| Institutional Revolutionary Party | 153,034 | 7.75 | 5 | 16 | 21 |
| Social Encounter Party | 68,639 | 3.47 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| New Alliance Party (Mexico) | 55,178 | 2.79 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Citizens' Movement | 42,068 | 2.1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Ecologist Green Party of Mexico | 30,477 | 1.54 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Labor Party | 18,348 | 0.93 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Independent candidates | 176,918 | 8.9 | 1 | — | 1 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 172,821 | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 2,145,655 | 100 | 60 | – | 100 |
| Registered voters/turnout | – | 28.67 | – | – | – |
The winning independent candidate — the only one of 21 to pass the 32,000-vote threshold — was Ismael Figueroa Flores.[9]
Party coordinators
- Bernardo Bátiz, Morena
- Santiago Creel, PAN[10]
Notes
- Ana Lilia Herrera Anzaldo, the original choice, left the Senate to become the Secretary of Education of the State of Mexico.
- The Labor Party declined to name one of its senators, as it disagreed with the creation of the list of senatorial designees. Romero Hicks of the PAN was selected instead.
- Replaced Pablo Escudero Morales after he was designated President of the Senate.