Overview
- The Junta Preparatoria, led by senator-elect Miguel Ángel Torres Morales, formalized a calendar that fixes the swearing-in ceremony for senators and deputies on Friday, July 24 at the Palacio Legislativo.
- The schedule requires parties to file internal parliamentary-group regulations and to accredit spokespeople under tight deadlines that reports variously place on July 22 or on the day of juramentación.
- Elections for each chamber’s Mesa Directiva are set for July 26 under a secret-ballot system that will determine who chairs both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
- Parties are already negotiating control of the Mesas Directivas and key commissions with competing slates named or floated, and several groups have announced they will renounce the installation allowance.
- The calendar is timed to conclude institutional installation before the new executive takes office on July 28 and will finalize how the reinstated 60-member Senate and the Chamber of Deputies share legislative power and oversight roles.