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Mexico

500 seats, and National Regeneration Movement holds 254.

Key takeaways

  1. 1

    Parliament. National Regeneration Movement holds the most seats: 254 of 500 (51%). A majority needs 251.

  2. 2

    Headlines. The tone is brightening: 13% of the last 14 days' headlines read grim, 13% upbeat. Top topic: Society (12%).

  3. 3

    Government. Government barometer 40/100 (Work-war risk). 0 of 2 moves on file read as smart, 0 as harmful.

Headline mood · 14 days

Line: mood · bars: stories

12 Nov · 8 stories · leaning upbeat1 upbeat · 7 neutral · 0 grim

What the headlines are about

  • Other 67%
  • Society 12%
  • Politics 8%
  • Economy 8%
  • Security 5%
  • Climate 1%

A simple word-list estimate from the daily wire headlines. Not a judgement.

Who holds the seats · Chamber of Deputies

500 seats · 251 for a majority (line)

National Regeneration Movement

254 seats · 50.8% · a majority alone

254 of 500 seats. The Chamber of Deputies list of 12 October 2026 gives Morena 254 of 500 deputies, 179 from districts and 75 from party lists. In 2024 Morena won 42.40 percent of the party-list vote. El Financiero's September 2026 poll put it at 46 percent, with 31 percent stating no preference.

Map · mood compared

Mexico

Overall mood: 13% grim, 13% upbeat · today +13

What changed today

12 Nov

  • 12 Nov: 8 stories (average 7); tone more upbeat than usual.

New headlines

2 more headlines
  • Opinion: Why (most of) Mexico’s elites dislike Sheinbaum

    According to the political analyst and communications strategist Emilio Lezama, Mexico has at least two elites: the cultural one, which more or less accepts Sheinbaum, and the economic one, which deeply dislikes her. Here's why. The post Opinion: Why (most of) Mexico’s elites dislike Sheinbaum appeared first on Mexico News Daily

    Mexico News Daily · 11 Nov

  • Sheinbaum calls NYT report on CIA’s alleged bargain with Chihuahua prosecutor ‘very interesting’: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped

    A report by the New York Times published on Tuesday says the U.S. visa of Guillermo Zuany Portillo, a former special prosecutor in Chihuahua, was reinstated after he helped CIA officers train state forces and join missions. The post Sheinbaum calls NYT report on CIA’s alleged bargain with Chihuahua prosecutor ‘very interesting’: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped appeared first on Mexico News Daily

    Mexico News Daily · 11 Nov

1 more of today's reports are only in their original language. Read them in the German edition.

Earlier this week: 10 more headlines

Headlines and summaries come from the linked sources; the selection is automatic.

Go deeper

Parties, people, promises, money

Seats 12 October 2026 · votes at that election

500 seats, and National Regeneration Movement holds 254.

The seat map is the Chamber of Deputies member list, LXVI Legislature, data as of 12 October 2026. It shows 500 seats: National Regeneration Movement 254, National Action Party 69, Ecologist Green Party of Mexico 61, Labor Party 49, Institutional Revolutionary Party 36, Citizens' Movement 30, Independent deputy 1. A majority of 500 is 251. Mexico elects 300 deputies in districts and 200 from party lists. The president is elected separately for six years; Claudia Sheinbaum took office on 1 October 2024. The next Chamber election is in June 2027. Vote shares are from the table of 2024 party-list votes from the National Electoral Institute counts. They are a share of votes cast, not a share of seats.

A score on this desk is an editorial average of six work topics, times ten, with the method written on the row.

The room

Chamber of Deputies

500 seats · 251 to govern alone · National Regeneration Movement and Ecologist Green Party of Mexico and Labor Party 364

The deal

The governing bloc holds 364 of 500 seats

251 seats would be a majority of 500. Morena holds 254 on its own. With the Green Party (61) and the Labor Party (49) the governing bloc holds 364, above the two-thirds needed for constitutional amendments. The opposition PAN, PRI and Citizens' Movement hold 135 together.

The mood

Election vs now

The left bar is the vote share. The right bar is seats divided by 500. They are different counts.

  • Morena
    46.0%
  • PAN
    8.0%
  • PVEM
    2.0%
  • PT
    1.0%
  • PRI
    6.0%
  • MC
    5.0%
  • Ind.
    0.0%

The first point is the 2024 party-list vote for the Chamber of Deputies from the National Electoral Institute counts. The second is Mitofsky's household survey of 13–16 August 2026, 1,200 interviews. The third is Buendía & Márquez for El Universal, 20–26 August 2026, 1,000 interviews. The fourth is El Financiero's phone poll of 800 adults, 10–20 September 2026. The three polls print raw shares with the undecided still in the base: 19.4, 28 and 31 percent named no party. That is why they sum well below 100 and are not the same count as votes cast.

The trend

From election night to now

Public pollster blend — not a forecast

The split

Seat share beside the vote share

The right bar is seats divided by 500. The left bar is the vote share. The electoral system means the two differ.

The mismatch

Seats they hold vs the poll

The seat bar is seats divided by 500. The other bar is the El Financiero poll of 10–20 September 2026.

The rude gauge

Growth king or a fight with work

Who grows the pie, who picks a fight with work. Cabinet sits at 40 / 100. The number is an editorial reading, not an official index. Six topics are averaged and multiplied by ten: energy supply, hiring, keeping and investing money, building, hours in paid work, and paperwork. Ten means the public record makes that easier for work. Zero means it makes it harder. The band is a label for that average, not a court ruling.

Against the workWork-war riskGrowth king

Full causal chains live on every promise

This week

The pulse

Chamber

Third year of the legislature

The Chamber's Gazette published the groups' agreement on the presiding board for the third year of the LXVI Legislature.

Polls

2027 race opens

El Financiero's September poll put Morena at 46 percent ahead of the June 2027 Chamber election, with 31 percent naming no party.

Politics 101

How this country actually works

What this chamber drawing is

500 seats. 251 to govern alone.

The seat map is the Chamber of Deputies member list, LXVI Legislature, data as of 12 October 2026. It shows 500 seats: National Regeneration Movement 254, National Action Party 69, Ecologist Green Party of Mexico 61, Labor Party 49, Institutional Revolutionary Party 36, Citizens' Movement 30, Independent deputy 1. A majority of 500 is 251. Mexico elects 300 deputies in districts and 200 from party lists. The president is elected separately for six years; Claudia Sheinbaum took office on 1 October 2024. The next Chamber election is in June 2027. Vote shares are from the table of 2024 party-list votes from the National Electoral Institute counts. They are a share of votes cast, not a share of seats.

Who holds the offices this desk names

Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico; Rosa Icela Rodríguez, Secretary of the Interior.

Office holders come from the CIA World Leaders list for Mexico, updated 23 June 2026. Party leaders are named from the press reports linked on each bio.

How foreigners are seen

Openness in Mexico

Published surveys only. Each figure shows its source and year.

Who's welcomed

Share of adults in Mexico with a favourable opinion of each country Pew asked about. A view of a country, not of its people.

Welcoming index

Derived from the two published measures below, not a survey result. Each input keeps its own year.

51.9/100

Mean of Gallup 4.75 of 9 (2016), rescaled to 52.8, and MIPEX 51 of 100 (2019).

The measures behind it (shown separately)

What expats say

InterNations Expat Insider 2025: rank out of 46 destinations, 1 is best.

  • Ease of settling in1 of 46
  • Culture and welcome1 of 46
  • Local friendliness3 of 46
  • Finding friends2 of 46

InterNations, Expat Insider 2025

All desks side by side

Pick a measure. Countries without a published figure show Unknown and sit at the end; they are not counted in the average.

Average of the 20 of 22 desks with a figure: 63.3 of 100. Unknown left out: Georgia, Thailand.

  1. Canada85.72024
  2. United States80.72020
  3. Portugal78.42023
  4. Australia76.82019
  5. Spain73.32024
  6. Ireland72.52023
  7. Netherlands69.92023
  8. Switzerland65.12019
  9. Italy65.12023
  10. United Kingdom64.72020
  11. Germany64.62023
  12. South Korea64.12020
  13. France63.62024
  14. Japan59.22019
  15. Mexicothis desk51.92019
  16. Malta51.52024
  17. Cyprus50.62024
  18. United Arab Emirates46.72019
  19. Greece43.12024
  20. Estonia38.72024
  21. GeorgiaUnknownMIPEX does not cover this country, so the index cannot be built.
  22. ThailandUnknownMIPEX does not cover this country, so the index cannot be built.

In plain words

  • Expats ranked Mexico 1 of 46 for ease of settling in (2025); its best sub-score was culture and welcome at 1.
  • Of the 3 countries Pew asked about here, China drew the most favourable opinions (56%, 2025).
  • Favourable opinions of China went from 43% in 2017 to 56% in 2025 (Pew).

Sources and method are listed under “How we source this” at the bottom of the page.

What it means for you

What it means for you

Only figures with a source and a date. Each source is listed under “How we source this” at the bottom of the page. Anything not listed here is not on file.

  • Pay

    The resolution published on 9 December 2025 sets 315.04 pesos a day from 1 January 2026 in the general zone, up 13 percent, and 440.87 pesos in the northern border free zone, up 5 percent. That is 9,582.47 pesos a month in the general zone.

  • Taxes

    The summary says VAT is payable at the general rate of 16 percent on sales of goods and services, leases and imports, with a 0 percent rate on items such as basic foodstuffs, medicines and exports.

  • Business

    The summary gives a federal rate of 30 percent, no state tax on corporate net income, and a 10 percent withholding tax on dividends paid to individuals and foreign residents.

Sources, licences and image credits

Data

  • Wire (public RSS feeds): X, Mexico News Daily, La Jornada.
  • The left bar is the vote share. The right bar is seats divided by 500. They are different counts.
  • Editorial economic-competence gauge, not a court and not a Nobel. Six axes: energy, hiring, capital, building, hours in work, red tape. Scores are a judgement from public records of this term and the last — not a bribery charge, not a voting recommendation.

Survey sources

  • Mexico — Gallup Migrant Acceptance Index 2016: Gallup. Neli Esipova, John Fleming and Julie Ray, “New Index Shows Least-, Most-Accepting Countries for Migrants”, Gallup, 23 August 2017. The full-country table lists Mexico at 4.75. The survey-methods note says the index was asked in 138 countries in 2016, so the year used here is 2016. Source. Gallup allows a contextual citation when the publication date and a link are given. The table and graphics are not reproduced.
  • Mexico — MIPEX overall score 2019: MIPEX. Migrant Integration Policy Index, Mexico country page. The block headed 2019 prints “MIPEX Score (with Health): 51” and the label “Equality on paper”. Source. The overall score is cited from the country page. The report is not reproduced.

Image credits

  • National Regeneration Movement mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
  • National Action Party mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
  • Ecologist Green Party of Mexico mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
  • Labor Party mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
  • Institutional Revolutionary Party mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
  • Citizens' Movement mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
  • Independent deputy mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
  • Flag of Mexico — Wikimedia Commons · Public domain Source
Questions the desk actually answers

FAQ

Questions the desk actually answers

Is the Mexico desk live on Nation Runner?
Yes. It draws the Chamber of Deputies member list, LXVI Legislature, data as of 12 October 2026, the table of 2024 party-list votes from the National Electoral Institute counts, and the CIA World Leaders list for Mexico, updated 23 June 2026. It is an editorial dashboard, not an official record.
Which culture figures does the Mexico desk show?
Gallup’s Migrant Acceptance Index for Mexico in 2016 (4.75 out of 9) and the Migrant Integration Policy Index score of 51, with 2019 printed beside that score. No Pew row for Mexico is on the perceptions page, so none is added here.
Does the money tab score political donations in Mexico?
No. Zeros mean the access scale is not filled. A zero is not a finding that a party has no donors.
How we source this

Seats: the Chamber of Deputies member list, LXVI Legislature, data as of 12 October 2026. Votes: the table of 2024 party-list votes from the National Electoral Institute counts. Ballot support: Mitofsky, 13–16 Aug 2026; Buendía & Márquez / El Universal, 20–26 Aug 2026; El Financiero, 10–20 Sep 2026. Offices: the CIA World Leaders list for Mexico, updated 23 June 2026. Culture: Gallup 2016 and the Migrant Integration Policy Index block headed 2019.

How foreigners are seen

Pew asks adults for their opinion of a country. That is a view of the country, not of its people or of any visitor. We never estimate a pair that was not asked; it shows as unknown.

InterNations ranks come from expats living in the country (46 destinations in 2025). Gallup's Migrant Acceptance Index runs from 0 to 9. MIPEX scores integration law and policy from 0 to 100.

Welcoming index: the mean of the Gallup index rescaled to 0–100 (score ÷ 9 × 100) and the MIPEX overall score, rounded to one decimal. It is derived, not a survey result, and the two inputs come from different years. If either input is missing the index is unknown: it is not estimated, it sorts last and it is left out of the average.

What it means for you

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