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LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress
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Overview
Legislative body	Congress of the Union
Term	1 September 2012 (2012-09-01) – 31 August 2015 (2015-08-31)
Senate of the Republic
Senate President	Ernesto Cordero Arroyo(2012-2013) Raúl Cervantes Andrade(2013-2014) Miguel Barbosa Huerta(2014-2015)
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber President	Jesús Murillo Karam(2012) Francisco Arroyo Vieyra(2012-2013) Ricardo Anaya(2013-2014) José González Morfin(2014) Silvano Aureoles Conejo(2014-2015) Tomás Torres Mercado(2015) Julio César Moreno Rivera(2015)

TheLXII Legislature of the Congress of the Union, the 62nd session of theCongress of Mexico, met from September 1, 2012, to August 31, 2015. It consisted of Senators and Deputies in their respective chambers. All members of both thelower andupper houses of the Congress were elected in the elections ofJuly 2012.

Senators were elected for a six-year term during the 2012 elections, allowing them to serve in both the LXII and subsequentlegislatures. Deputies, also elected in the 2012 elections, served exclusively during the LXII Legislature.

The composition of the LXII Legislature was as follows:

Members of the Senate of the Republic are elected for a term of six years. Each of the states elects three senators, complemented by an additional 32 senators selected from a national list, totaling 128 senators.

The composition of the Senate in the LXII Legislature is as follows:

For the internal governance of the Senate, senators are organized by the political party through which they were elected intoparliamentary groups. Each group is led by a coordinator. The coordinators from all groups collectively form thePolitical Coordination Board of the Senate.

TheInstitutional Revolutionary Party & the alliedGreen Party failed to gain a simple majority in either house. As a result, the PRI had to form crossparty coalitions in order to pass key reforms, particularly those requiring constitutional amendments.^[1] In the July 2012 elections the PRI gained 2 seats, ending with 52. ThePAN gained 5 seats, ending with 38. ThePRD lost 1 seat, ending with 22. ThePVEM gained 1 seat, ending with 9. TheLabor Party lost 1 seat, ending with 4. ThePANAL lost 3, ending with 2 seats. TheMC lost 3 seats, ending with 1.^[1]

The 128 Senators that make up the LXII Legislature are as follows:

TheInstitutional Revolutionary Party lost 32 seats, ending with 207. ThePAN lost 28 seats, ending with 114. ThePRD gained 31 seats, ending with 100. TheGreen Party gained 11 seats, ending with 34. ThePT gained 6 seats, ending with 19. TheNew Alliance gained 3 seats, ending with 10. TheCitizens Movement gained 10 seats, ending with 16. 1 independent seat was lost, and now there are none in the Chamber of Deputies.^[1]

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