Article 4 of Mexico’s Planning Law states: “Es responsabilidad del Ejecutivo Federal conducir la planeación nacional del desarrollo” (It is the responsibility of the federal executive to lead national development planning). Under Article 21, the president sends the Plan Nacional de Desarrollo, the national development plan, to the Chamber of Deputies by the last working day of February of the year after taking office.
The ministries and agencies then write their own programs. Article 30 gives them six months after the publication of the plan.