Overview

• At a public forum in Hermosillo, Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez said no initiative exists yet and pledged to build the proposal from nationwide hearings.
• Rodríguez reiterated that the reform’s priority is lowering the fiscal burden of elections and updating procedures with appropriate digital tools while maintaining transparency, legality, impartiality, objectivity and certainty.
• INE president Guadalupe Taddei said the institute is open to technical changes and urged preserving state OPLEs, citing their operational value in local contexts and the need to balance efficiency with cost.
• The Sonora session featured 20 presentations spanning digital electoral crimes, gender quotas, indigenous representation, campaign financing and oversight, and other structural and legal ideas.
• Analysts continue to warn that centralizing plans floated in the López Obrador era could reemerge, as the commission advances state-by-state consultations toward a first draft targeted for January 2026.