Article 76 Political Constitution of the United Mexican States

The exclusive powers of the Senate are:

I.To analyze the foreign policy developed by the person holding the Federal Executive based on the annual reports that the persons holding the Presidency of the Republic and the corresponding Secretariat of Office render to the Congress.

In addition, to approve the international treaties and diplomatic conventions that the Federal Executive signs, as well as its decision to terminate, denounce, suspend, modify, amend, withdraw reservations and formulate interpretative declarations on the same;

II.To ratify the appointments that the person holding the Presidency of the Republic makes of the persons holding the Secretariats of State, in the event that the latter opts for a coalition government, with the exception of those corresponding to the branches of National Defense and Navy; of those appointed as Secretary responsible for the internal control of the Federal Executive; of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs; of the embassies and of the general consulates; superior employees of the branch of Foreign Affairs, and Colonels and other superior chiefs of the National Army, Navy, Air Force and National Guard, in the terms that the law provides;

III.To authorize it also so that it may permit the departure of national troops outside the limits of the Country, the passage of foreign troops through the national territory and the stationing of squadrons of another power, for more than one month, in Mexican waters.

IV.To analyze and approve the annual report that the Federal Executive presents to it on the activities of the National Guard;

V.To declare, when all the constitutional powers of a state (federal entity) have disappeared, that the case has arrived to appoint a person holding the provisional executive power, who shall call elections in accordance with the constitutional laws of the state (federal entity). The appointment of the person holding the local executive power shall be made by the Senate on a proposal in a list of three made by the person holding the Presidency of the Republic, with the approval of two thirds of the members present, and during the recesses, by the Permanent Commission, in accordance with the same rules. Whoever is thus appointed may not be elected to hold the executive power in the elections held by virtue of the call that he issues. This provision shall govern provided that the constitutions of the states (federal entities) do not provide for the case;

VI.To resolve the political questions that arise between the powers of a state (federal entity) when any of them resorts for that purpose to the Senate, or when by reason of said questions the constitutional order has been interrupted, a conflict of arms intervening. In this case the Senate shall issue its resolution, subjecting itself to the General Constitution of the Republic and to that of the state (federal entity).

The law shall regulate the exercise of this power and of the previous one.

VII.To constitute itself as a Judgment Jury to hear in impeachment proceedings (juicio político) the offenses or omissions that the public officials commit and that redound to the detriment of the fundamental public interests and of their good dispatch, in the terms of article 110 of this Constitution;

VIII.To grant or deny the requests of leave or resignation of the public officials of the Federal Judiciary in accordance with article 98 of this Constitution and in the terms that the laws establish;

IX.Repealed.

X.To authorize by decree approved by the vote of two thirds of the members present, the amicable agreements that on their respective limits the states (federal entities) conclude;

XI.To analyze and approve the National Public Security Strategy, within the period that the law provides, after the appearance of the person holding the secretariat of the branch. In the event that the Senate does not rule within said period, it shall be understood as approved;

XII.Repealed

XIII.To integrate the list of candidates to occupy the headship of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic; to appoint said public official, and to formulate objection to the removal that the Federal Executive makes of the same, in accordance with article 102, Subsection A, of this Constitution, and

XIV.The others that the same Constitution attributes to it.