How Mexico's Bloated Legislature Fuels Empty Politics
Mexico's legislature churns out initiatives, but few become law. This focus on quantity over quality leads to wasted resources and ineffective legislation. Legislative Impact Assessment (LIA) analyzes laws before they're passed, ensuring they are well-crafted and address real problems.
The hallowed halls of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies, theoretically the heartbeat of the nation's legislative power, reverberate with an odd paradox. Each legislative session witnesses a torrent of proposed laws and reforms – thousands upon thousands of them. Yet, the echo of that activity seems strangely muted. For every submitted legislative change, only a tiny fraction makes it to the finish line.
Take the sobering statistics. In the LXIV legislative session, over 11,000 initiatives were launched, but a mere 650 crossed the line into law. The LXV session appears on a similar trajectory, with thousands of proposals and an approval rate barely exceeding a meager 2%. For critics, these numbers tell a story of institutional dysfunction – of a legislature mired in gridlock and inefficiency. And at the center of it, they see Mexico's deputies, or federal lawmakers, busily churning out vast swathes of legislation that largely vanish without a trace.
