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Campeche Governor Sansores Says Congress Approved and She Funded Her Europe Birthday Trip

She published a family video to justify her six-day leave request after critics flagged party officials’ overseas travel during austerity appeals.

Overview

  • Layda Sansores confirmed she requested and received a six-day leave from the Campeche Congress for her only vacation of the year.
  • She shared a video on X showing her dancing cumbia with her daughter and two grandchildren while celebrating her 80th birthday abroad.
  • State spokesperson Walther Patrón Bacab asserted that Sansores covered all costs with personal funds and did not draw on public resources.
  • Sansores explained the trip was a private family visit, noting her daughter Layda Negrete remains abroad under an asylum process linked to the documentary “Duda Razonable.”
  • Photographs of her boarding a flight at Mexico City International Airport to Amsterdam have intensified scrutiny of Morena officials’ foreign travel during austerity appeals.