THE COALITION GOVERNMENT IN MEXICO: LEGISLATIVE STUDY AND INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN

Abstract

This article aims to make an analysis of the coalition government in Mexican constitutional law, in order to determine the changes that this figure undergoes when it is transplanted from a parliamentary regime to a presidential one. The figure embodied in the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and in the Political Constitution of Mexico City is analyzed and from there it is determined that, while in parliamentarism the coalition government is used to constitute a government, in Mexican presidentialism it is used for governance and its usefulness is found in dealing with contexts of political fragmentation. Although it has never been used in practice, the example of the Citizen Front for Mexico is mentioned, where the coalition government was used as the axis to constitute the respective electoral coalition.