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H.E. Dr. Lorenzo CÓRDOVA VIANELLO,
PresidentCouncillor (Consejero Presidente)

PArt i 11. Language (s)
Spanish 92.7%, Spanish and other indigenous
CoUNtrY ProfiLE language 5.7%, indigenous 0.8%, unspecified 0.8%

1. Country Name (2005)
MEXICO
12. Literacy Rate
2. Official Name 93.6% (2015)
UnitedMexicanStates (MEX; Spanish: Estados PArt ii
Unidos Mexicanos)
LEgisLAtivE sYstEM
3. Government
Federal Presidential Republic
LEGISLATURE
4. Head of the Government
President – Andrés Manuel LópezObrador 1. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
Honorable Congreso de la Unión: Senado de la
5. Head of the State República -Cámara alta- Cámara de Diputados
President – Andrés Manuel LópezObrador -Cámara baja-

6. Capital (Honorable Congress of the Union: Senate -Upper
Mexico City (Ciudad de México) Chamber- and Chamber of Deputies -Lower
Chamber-)
7. Currency
Mexican peso 2. Total no. of members in each house elected/
nominated
8. Ethnic Groups (with %age population) Senate: 128 members, elected for a six-year term,
Mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 62%, mostly 96 of them in three-seat state constituencies. and
Amerindian 21%, Other 10% (mostly European), 32 by proportional representation on a nationwide
Amerindian 7%.
basis. In the state constituencies, two seats are
9. Date of Independence and from which Country awarded to the plurality winner and one to the first
16 September 1810 (declared independence from runner-up.
Spain);
Chamber of Deputies: 500 members, elected
27 September 1821 (recognized by Spain) for a three-year term, 300 of whom are elected
in single-member constituencies by plurality
10. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution vote, with the remaining 200 members elected
5 February 1917(most recent amendment 6 by proportional representation in five 40-seat
March 2020) regional constituencies.

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