This page lists official places to find your state and municipal government, ask public bodies for information, follow public money, take part in elections and report misconduct by public officials in Mexico. Every service here is run by the federal government, Congress, the national electoral institute or the federal prosecutor’s office. None takes a side on any party or candidate. The websites are in Spanish, so each official name is given in Spanish with a short description in English.
Gobierno de México: Estados y sus municipios (gob.mx)The federal government’s guide to how government is organized. Its list of states and their municipalities (Estados y sus municipios) links to the official website of each of the 32 state governments, Mexico City’s included, with the number of municipalities, or alcaldías in Mexico City, in each.www.gob.mx/gobierno
¿Conoces el Marco Jurídico del Municipio? (Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal, INAFED)The federal institute for municipal development explains that each municipality is governed by a directly elected ayuntamiento (municipal council), that state congresses pass the laws on how municipal government is organized, and that ayuntamientos make local rules, including to ensure citizen and neighborhood participation.www.gob.mx/inafed/articulos/conoces-el-marco-juridico-del-municipio
Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia (PNT)The national transparency platform. Read the information public institutions across the country must publish by law, ask any of them for public information or for your own personal data, and file a complaint (queja) if a request was not answered or you disagree with the reply. Its help line, CONECTA, is 800 835 43 24.www.plataformadetransparencia.org.mx/Inicio
Preguntas frecuentes (Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia)Step-by-step help with the platform. Registering needs only a username, password and email address; a request can use a name or a pseudonym, go to up to 33 institutions at once, and ask for support for a disability or translation into an Indigenous language. It also explains how to report an institution that does not publish the information the law requires.www.plataformadetransparencia.org.mx/preguntas-frecuentes
Transparencia para el Pueblo (Secretaría Anticorrupción y Buen Gobierno)The federal oversight authority (autoridad garante federal) for the right of access to information held by the federal public administration. Its site has information on appeals (recursos de revisión), training materials and its contact details; its switchboard is 55 5004 2400.transparencia.gob.mx/home.html
Budgets and public spending
Transparencia Presupuestaria (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público)The finance ministry’s observatory of public spending, with maps, charts, open data and training materials on federal public money: revenue, a summary (ficha) for each federal spending program, federal public works on a map, and evaluations of programs.www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gob.mx
Ciclo presupuestario (Transparencia Presupuestaria)Explains the seven stages of the federal budget cycle and publishes citizen guides in plain language to the proposed budget, the budget approved by the Chamber of Deputies, the quarterly reports and the annual public accounts (Cuenta Pública).www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gob.mx/Ciclo-Presupuestario
Entidades federativas (Transparencia Presupuestaria)How much the federal government transfers to each state and its municipalities, a map of the public works paid for with that money that you can search by state, municipality, locality or postal code, and how well local governments report how they spend it.www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gob.mx/Entidades-Federativas
Auditoría Superior de la Federación (ASF)The Chamber of Deputies’ specialized technical body, with technical and management autonomy, that audits how federal public money is used by the three branches of government, the autonomous constitutional bodies, states and municipalities, and anyone else who handles it.www.asf.gob.mx/Default/Index
Serving at elections
Aprueba INE Estrategia de Capacitación y Asistencia Electoral 2026-2027 (Instituto Nacional Electoral, INE)Citizens make up the polling station boards (mesas directivas de casilla) on election day. This INE announcement sets out how they will be trained for the 2026-2027 federal and concurrent elections, and how the electoral supervisors and trainer-assistants (Supervisores y Capacitadores-Asistentes Electorales) who support them are recruited.centralelectoral.ine.mx/2026/08/31/aprueba-ine-estrategia-de-capacitacion-y-asistencia-electoral-2026-2027
Portal de Observación Electoral (INE)Any Mexican citizen in full exercise of their civil and political rights can apply, through this portal or at an INE office (Junta Ejecutiva), to be an accredited election observer, and must take a training course. Observers must not interfere with the work of electoral authorities, declare a winner or wear emblems of any party or candidate.pe2027-observadores.ine.mx/portal/observador
Voting and elections
Sobre el INE (Instituto Nacional Electoral)The INE is Mexico’s highest electoral authority: it runs federal elections and issues the voter ID card (Credencial para Votar). Its guiding principles are legality, certainty, impartiality, objectivity, independence and maximum publicity.www.ine.mx/sobre-el-ine
Credencial para Votar (INE)How to get your voter ID card: make an appointment, prepare your documents, go to your INE service office (módulo) and collect the card there. INETEL, the INE’s information line, is free from anywhere in the country on 800 433 2000, Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 18:00.www.ine.mx/credencial
Trámites de la Credencial y Servicios (INE)Every voter ID procedure needs an original birth certificate, photo ID and proof of address no more than three months old, and all procedures are free. The page explains registering for the first time, correcting your details, a change of address, a replacement card and renewing the card, which is valid for 10 years.www.ine.mx/credencial/tramite-credencial-tipo
Organismos Públicos Locales (INE)Each state has its own local electoral institute (Organismo Público Local, OPL), an authority separate from the INE, which organizes the state’s elections, such as for governor, the state congress and municipal councils. Its directory links to each one’s official website.www.ine.mx/voto-y-elecciones/opl
Holding public officials to account
Sistema Integral de Denuncias Ciudadanas (SIDEC, Secretaría Anticorrupción y Buen Gobierno)Report misconduct (faltas administrativas) by federal public servants, or by people and companies that handle federal public money or take part in federal contracts. Reporting is free and can be anonymous, the platform is open at all hours, and a folio and key let you follow your report. It does not take complaints about state or municipal authorities. Advice: 800 1128 700.denuncias.gob.mx
Ciudadanos Alertadores Internos y Externos de la Corrupción (Secretaría Anticorrupción y Buen Gobierno)A channel to alert the federal anti-corruption ministry to corruption by a public servant, such as asking for money in exchange for a procedure or misusing public resources. The ministry says the platform guarantees anonymity and that your identity is not revealed without your explicit consent.alertadores.buengobierno.gob.mx
Denuncia Ciudadana (Auditoría Superior de la Federación)The federal audit office takes complaints from the public. Your information is treated confidentially, and you can check the status of a complaint with its folio and password.www.asf.gob.mx/Section/412_Denuncia_Ciudadana
¿Qué es gob.mx?gob.mx is the federal government’s single portal for procedures (trámites), information and citizen participation, run by the Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones with all federal agencies.www.gob.mx/que-es-gobmx
Victim of a cybercrime? Call 088 (Guardia Nacional)The National Guard’s 088 citizen line gives guidance on reporting a cybercrime. The Guard says your report is safe and confidential.www.gob.mx/gncertmx/articulos/en-caso-de-ser-victima-de-algun-ciberdelito-llama-al-088-atencion-ciudadana
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