Overview
- Sheinbaum’s legal team met with commission chair Pablo Gómez as the presidency expects to present a draft in the third week of January.
- Monreal’s Jucopo roadmap calls for filing the initiative in the first half of January and opening formal debate on February 1, with the originating chamber to be designated by the president.
- Morena’s majority is targeting congressional approval by mid-March, after which the text would go to state congresses for Constituyente Permanente ratification.
- Secondary laws would be taken up from March to April, with possible extraordinary sessions into May–July, and regulations are slated by July to ready the system before the September 2026 electoral kickoff.
- The plan notes an April 4 vote to appoint three INE councilors if the current council continues, and the reform under discussion includes ideas such as converting the INE into an INEC, eliminating OPLES, revising plurinominal rules and reducing party and election costs.