Overview
- Head of government Clara Brugada announced the changes at the Antiguo Palacio del Ayuntamiento, naming Yanes to replace Alejandro Encinas Nájera in the planning post and appointing Moctezuma to lead Sectei.
- Both officials are scheduled to take office next Monday, and Yanes will appear before the local Congress this week still as education, science and technology chief.
- The planning portfolio positions Yanes to steer the city’s urban policy after prolonged holdups around the Urban Development Plan dating back to the Sheinbaum administration.
- Brugada highlighted Yanes’s city-planning perspective and Moctezuma’s academic credentials, framing the appointments as aligned with democratic planning and metropolitan governance goals.
- Yanes brings UN and CEPAL experience in social development and urban issues, while Moctezuma arrives with a long record in environmental and water management and decades as a UAM researcher.