Government

Information courtesy of: Enna Castillo, Andrea Solís, Suny Can and Christy Basto.

The government of Yucatán is divided into three branches: Legislative, Executive and Judiciary. The Executive is wielded by the state governor; the Legislative branch is wielded by the congress, which is a unicameral legislature that consists of 25 deputies. The governor and the deputies are elected by universal and secret suffrage. The Judiciary is wielded by the Justice Supreme Court of the state.

According to the constitution, the wielding of the executive branch in this Mexican entity is deposited in one individual, who is designated the Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán, and he is elected for a 6 years period (4 before)  that starts from October 1st of the elections year. Currently the governmental period starts from October 1st of the elections year and it finishes on July 31st after the period of 6 years.

In spite of the no reelection principle established in the Yucatecan constitution; it lets the Yucatecan citizens to be elected as constitutionals governors including that people who had occupied the titular of the executive branch before, but in a different way of the popular election, this is of the provisional, substitute or temporary. This has generated controversy and political conflict, well in judge of some people this possibility is in conflict with the precept of the Political Constitution of the Mexican United States which establish that none of the state governor will last more than 6 months in that position. This difference was noticed when Víctor Cervera Pacheco, who was governor in 1995, was elected as governor when he had been the provisional governor before.  

According to the state elections of 2007, the current governor of Yucatán is Ivonne Ortega Pacheco, the niece of the deceased former governor Victor Cervera Pacheco, and her charge concludes in 2012.