Overview
- Mexico’s electoral council filled 28 of 44 state electoral posts but left 16 vacant when nominees failed to secure the required eight of 11 votes.
- Several presidencies remained unassigned, including in Campeche and Colima, with more vacancies across Guerrero, Hidalgo, Coahuila, Nayarit, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas and Tlaxcala.
- Councillors publicly disagreed over the process, as critics decried a lack of consensus and INE president Guadalupe Taddei defended avoiding what she called artificial consensuses.
- The seven-month selection narrowed 1,916 applicants to 117 finalists, yet many fell short of the qualified majority, and a new call is expected to fill the empty seats.
- Coverage diverged on Chiapas: some reports said Marina Martha López Santiago was appointed president, while others listed the post as vacant.