President of Mexico

The **president of Mexico** (), officially the **president of the United Mexican States** (), is the head of state and head of government of Mexico. Under the Constitution of Mexico, the president heads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander in chief of the Mexican Armed Forces. The office is currently held by Claudia Sheinbaum, who was sworn in on October 1, 2024.

### Modern Mexico (1934–present)

After the constitutional reform of 1926, the presidential term in Mexico was extended to six years starting in 1928; with a formal ban on reelection. After the federal election of 1934 all the presidents have completed their six-year terms.

- Political parties

|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Portrait|rowspan="2"|Name|rowspan="2"|Elected|colspan="3"|Term of office|rowspan="2"|Political party|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Lázaro Cárdenas del Río|1934|1 December 1934|30 November 1940|6 years|National Revolutionary Party||||||
||Manuel Ávila Camacho|1940|1 December 1940|30 November 1946|6 years|Party of the Mexican Revolution||||||
||Miguel Alemán Valdés|1946|1 December 1946|30 November 1952|6 years|Institutional Revolutionary Party||||||
||Adolfo Ruiz Cortines|1952|1 December 1952|30 November 1958|6 years|Institutional Revolutionary Party||||||
||Adolfo López Mateos|1958|1 December 1958|30 November 1964|6 years|Institutional Revolutionary Party||||||
||Gustavo Díaz Ordaz|1964|1 December 1964|30 November 1970|6 years|Institutional Revolutionary Party||||||
||Luis Echeverría Álvarez|1970|1 December 1970|30 November 1976|6 years|Institutional Revolutionary Party||||||
||José López Portillo|1976|1 December 1976|30 November 1982|6 years|Institutional Revolutionary Party||||||
||Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado|1982|1 December 1982|30 November 1988|6 years|Institutional Revolutionary Party||||||
||Carlos Salinas de Gortari|1988|1 December 1988|30 November 1994|6 years|Institutional Revolutionary Party||||||
||Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León|1994|1 December 1994|30 November 2000|6 years|Institutional Revolutionary Party||||||
||Vicente Fox Quesada|2000|1 December 2000|30 November 2006|6 years|National Action Party||||||
||Felipe Calderón Hinojosa|2006|1 December 2006|30 November 2012|6 years|National Action Party||||||
||Enrique Peña Nieto|2012|1 December 2012|30 November 2018|6 years|Institutional Revolutionary Party||||||
||Andrés Manuel López Obrador|2018|1 December 2018|30 September 2024||National Regeneration Movement||||||
||Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo|2024|1 October 2024|Incumbent||National Regeneration Movement||||||

## Requirements

To be eligible to serve as president, Article 82 of the Constitution specifies that the following requirements must be met:
- Be a natural-born citizen of Mexico ("_mexicano por nacimiento_") able to exercise full citizenship rights, with at least one parent who is a natural-born citizen of Mexico.
- Be a resident of Mexico for at least twenty (20) years.
- Be thirty-five years of age or older at the time of the election.
- Be a resident of Mexico for the entire year prior to the election (although absences of 30 days or fewer are explicitly stated not to interrupt residency).
- Not be an official or minister of any church or religious denomination.
- Not be in active military service during the six months prior to the election.
- Not be a secretary of state or under-secretary of state, attorney general, governor of a State, or head of the government of Mexico City, unless "separated from the post" (resigned or been granted permanent leave of absence) at least six months prior to the election.
- Not have been president already, even in a provisional capacity (see **Succession** below).

## Powers

The 1917 Constitution was influenced from the Constitution of the United States. It made it clear separation of powers while giving the president wider powers than his American counterpart.  However, this has only recently become the case in practice.

## Residence

The President's official residence and main workplace is Los Pinos, located inside the Bosque de Chapultepec (Chapultepec Park). The President has the right to use this residence for the six-year term of office.

## Living former Presidents

There are six living former presidents. The most recent former president to die was Luis Echeverría (1970–1976), on 8 July 2022.

## Other websites

- President of México - Official government website

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: President
- **body**: the
United Mexican States
- **insignia**: Logo Presidencia de la República del Gobierno de México-2024-2030.jpg
- **insigniasize**: 250
- **insigniacaption**: Logo of the President's Office
- **flag**: Mexican Presidential Standard.svg
- **flagsize**: 125
- **flagborder**: yes
- **flagcaption**: Presidential Standard
- **image**: La presidenta encabeza el Grito de Independencia 2025 (cropped).jpg
- **incumbent**: Claudia Sheinbaum
- **incumbentsince**: 1 October 2024
- **department**: Executive branch of the Federal government of Mexico, Mexican Government
- **style**: Señora Presidenta

La Honorable

Su Excelencia

- **type**: Head of state
Head of government
Commander in chief
- **residence**: National Palace (Mexico), National Palace
- **seat**: Mexico City
- **appointer**: Election, Popular vote
- **termlength**: Sexenio (Mexico), Six years
- **termlength qualified**: non renewable
- **constituting instrument**: Constitution of Mexico (1917)
- **precursor**: Emperor of Mexico
- **first**: Guadalupe Victoria
- **succession**: #Succession, Line of succession
- **deputy**: Secretariat of the Interior, Secretary of Interior
- **salary**: MXN, MX$208,570.92