Overview

• Senators ratified Castillo to lead the Mesa Directiva for the LXVI Legislature’s second year with 101 votes, five dissenting, as outgoing president Gerardo Fernández Noroña closed his term with thanks to all groups.
• The new leadership panel installed Verónica Noemí Camino Farjat (Morena), Imelda Margarita San Miguel Sánchez (PAN) and Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín (PVEM) as vice presidents.
• Secretaries reflect a cross-party lineup with notable female representation, including Mariela Gutiérrez Escalante, Claudia Edith Anaya Mota, Lizeth Sánchez García, María Martina Kantún Can, Jasmine María Bugarín Rodríguez, Gustavo Sánchez Vázquez and Néstor Camarillo Medina.
• Castillo pledged an institutional, plural stewardship and called for debate free of hate, racism, classism and machismo, while affirming her leftist convictions.
• She said her first session on September 1 will swear in 881 judges, magistrates and ministers under a special security operation, and the vote saw public dissent from PAN senator Lilly Téllez, who displayed her ballot.