Liborio Vidal Requests to Join Morena and Declares Bid for Mérida Mayor

Overview

• Liborio Vidal Aguilar announced he has asked to join Morena and said he will seek the party’s nomination for Mérida mayor in the 2027 race.
• Vidal posted that he met with President Claudia Sheinbaum and Governor Joaquín Díaz Mena to discuss the move, a claim reported from his statements and not independently corroborated in press accounts.
• Hours after Vidal’s public break with PAN, the Mérida city government removed Carlos Carrillo Paredes from the Secretariat of Participation and Citizen Attention, a change confirmed by municipal sources.
• Vidal registered in Morena’s internal process to coordinate local Comités de Defensa, a step that must be approved by the party’s committees before he can become its official candidate and that places him among multiple hopefuls for Mérida.
• A veteran politician with a history in PRI, PVEM, PRD and recent ties to PAN, Vidal frames his switch as support for Renacimiento Maya and the Fourth Transformation, a shift that could realign local networks and affect municipal leadership and service priorities.