Sheinbaum to Present 20 Legislative Proposals in 2025

President Claudia Sheinbaum is preparing a package of nearly 20 legislative proposals to present to Congress during the next regular session, which begins on March 1. The package includes drafting secondary laws required to implement the constitutional reforms approved in 2024 and revising the Law of the Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers.

“We will conduct a review of the INFONAVIT Law to secure its approval, along with several other critical laws. (...) About 20 initiatives will be presented in the next session,” Sheinbaum announced.

On Dec. 23, Sheinbaum met with Ricardo Monreal, MORENA’s Deputy Coordinator, and Ignacio Mier, Member, Senate’s Political Coordination Board, to outline her administration’s legislative priorities and new proposals. The initiatives also include measures to combat nepotism, amendments to the laws on public procurement and public works, and a constitutional reform to eliminate re-election. “These efforts aim to translate constitutional reforms into effective secondary legislation, including essential laws for PEMEX and CFE. It is a robust and impactful legislative agenda,” Sheinbaum emphasized.

In the first three months of Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration, Congress approved half of the constitutional reforms enacted during the entire term of López Obrador. The majority held by MORENA and its allies in Congress has enabled Sheinbaum to accelerate the approval of reforms, a flexibility López Obrador lacked, which often required extensive negotiations with opposition parties.

López Obrador’s 20-Reform Package

On Feb. 5, López Obrador introduced 20 reform proposals, which he said would leave behind the policies that have caused greater social inequality and finally ensure that the country better protects its citizens. The reforms were: 

• For indigenous peoples and communities to be recognized as subjects of public law, giving them preference

• Guaranteeing the right to a pension from the age of 65, with an increasing amount year after year

• New scholarships for low-income students

• Guaranteeing the right to free medical care

• Guaranteeing the right of Mexicans to own their home

• Prohibiting animal abuse

• Prohibiting fracking for the extraction of hydrocarbons

• Managing areas with scarce water resources carefully, allowing its use exclusively for domestic purposes

• Banning the sale of vapers and drugs like fentanyl

• Guaranteeing that the increase in the minimum wage is greater than inflation

• Establishing the minimum wage for teachers, national guards, soldiers, navy members, and doctors at least at the same level as the income granted to workers registered with IMSS

• Removing pension reforms approved during Ernesto Zedillo’s government

• Guaranteeing the right to education and work

• Guaranteeing farmers’ access to a salary like the one offered in the Sowing Life program

• Establishing the use of the 18,000km of railways granted during Zedillo’s government for public transportation, not just cargo.

• Reducing campaign and political party expenses, decreasing the number of council members, eliminating electoral bureaucratic structures and multi-member candidacies

• Reducing the Chamber of Deputies to 300 deputies from the current 500, and the Senate to 64 members instead of 128.

• Public election of judges, magistrates, and ministers of the Judicial Branch

• Administration of the National Guard by the Ministry of National Defense

• Turning “Republican Austerity” into policy so that no one in the public sector can earn more than the president

• Eliminating autonomous organizations to save money

To date, key measures have been approved, including the judicial reform, indigenous reform, the integration of autonomous agencies into federal structures, the prohibition of vaping devices and fentanyl, secondary legislation tied to the judicial reform, energy sector regulations, and the adjustment of the minimum age to qualify for senior citizen pensions.