Overview
- In a Senate session, leaders read Alejandro Gertz Manero’s letter asking that his resignation be accepted following his nomination as Mexico’s ambassador to an unspecified friendly country.
- Under the constitution, the Senate must first approve the resignation, after which President Claudia Sheinbaum will present three candidates for the chamber to select a new attorney general by a two‑thirds majority.
- Gertz, 86, has served since 2019 as the first attorney general in the restructured, nominally independent office, drawing criticism for close ties to former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
- Security pressures have intensified in recent weeks, with the early‑November killing of Uruapan’s mayor sharpening scrutiny of federal performance and accountability.
- Under Sheinbaum, the Attorney General’s Office took part in two extradition operations transferring 55 alleged major traffickers to the United States, including Rafael Caro Quintero, and Gertz called for stronger coordination with state prosecutors shortly before his exit.