President of the Senate (Mexico) Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids President of the Senate
Senate Seal
Incumbent Gerardo Fernández Noroña since 1 September 2024
Senate of the Republic
Style	Senador(a) presidente(a)
Seat	Senate Palace, Mexico City
Appointer	Senate
Term length	One year
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Mexico
Formation	1 January 1825; 200 years ago (1825-01-01)
First holder	Valentín Gómez Farías

The President of the Senate (in Spanish: Presidente de la Cámara de Senadores) is the main leader of the Mexican Senate. Think of them as the head of the Senate. The person holding this important job right now is Senator Gerardo Fernández Noroña.

What is the President of the Senate?
- How the President is Chosen
- Senate President vs. Congress President
Recent Presidents of the Senate (since 2000)
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What is the President of the Senate?

The President of the Senate is the person who leads the meetings and activities of the Mexican Senate. The Senate is like one of the two main groups that make laws in Mexico.

How the President is Chosen

At the start of each year's law-making period, the Mexican Senate chooses a special group called the Executive Board (Mesa Directiva). This board has a President, three Vice-Presidents, and four Secretaries. All 128 senators vote for these positions. They need more than half of the votes to be chosen. The President of this Executive Board also becomes the President of the Senate. They can be chosen again for the next year if the senators agree.

Senate President vs. Congress President

The President of the Senate leads the upper house of the Mexican Congress. The Mexican Congress has two parts: the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. While the Senate President leads the Senate, the leader of the Chamber of Deputies is actually the President of the entire Congress.

Recent Presidents of the Senate (since 2000)

Here are some of the people who have served as President of the Senate since the year 2000. They each served for a one-year term.

Legislature	Session	Term	Name
58th	1	September 1, 2000 – August 31, 2001	Enrique Jackson	Institutional Revolutionary Party
	2	September 1, 2001 – August 31, 2002	Yolanda González Hernández
	3	September 1, 2002 – August 31, 2003	Enrique Jackson
59th	1	September 1, 2003 – August 31, 2004	Enrique Jackson
	2	September 1, 2004 – August 31, 2005	Diego Fernández de Cevallos	National Action Party
	3	September 1, 2005 – August 31, 2006	Enrique Jackson	Institutional Revolutionary Party
60th	1	September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2007	Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera	Institutional Revolutionary Party
	2	September 1, 2007 – August 31, 2008	Santiago Creel Miranda	National Action Party
	3	September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2009	Gustavo Madero Muñoz	National Action Party
61st	1	September 1, 2009 – August 31, 2010	Carlos Navarrete Ruiz	Party of the Democratic Revolution
	2	September 1, 2010 – August 31, 2011	Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera	Institutional Revolutionary Party
	3	September 1, 2011 – August 31, 2012	José González Morfin	National Action Party
62nd	1	September 1, 2012 – August 31, 2013	Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo	National Action Party
	2	September 1, 2013 – August 31, 2014	Raúl Cervantes Andrade	Institutional Revolutionary Party
	3	September 1, 2014 – August 31, 2015	Miguel Barbosa Huerta	Party of the Democratic Revolution
63rd	1	September 1, 2015 – August 31, 2016	Roberto Gil Zuarth	National Action Party
	2	September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2017	Pablo Escudero Morales	Ecologist Green Party of Mexico
	3	September 1, 2017 – August 31, 2018	Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo	National Action Party
64th	1	September 1, 2018 – August 31, 2019	Martí Batres Guadarrama	National Regeneration Movement
	2	September 1, 2019 – August 31, 2020	Mónica Fernández Balboa
	3	September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2021	Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar
65th	1	September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2022	Olga Sánchez Cordero
	2	September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023	Alejandro Armenta Mier
	3	September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2024	Ana Lilia Rivera
66th	1	1 September 2024 – Incumbent	Gerardo Fernández Noroña