Overview
- Lázaro Cárdenas Batel and Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla led the Michoacán hearing, part of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s nationwide consultation on electoral reform.
- The event featured 25 presenters, including sitting magistrates, former electoral counselors, legislators, civil-society representatives and academics.
- Attendees repeatedly urged against eliminating state electoral bodies, warning of no assured savings, duplicated INE structures and diminished rights.
- Specialists proposed a hybrid design with national rules and oversight but locally run electoral operations, citing Michoacán’s intercultural mediation needs.
- Separately, Morena’s national leader Luisa María Alcalde said 2027 gubernatorial nominees will be chosen by survey with at least nine of 17 candidacies reserved for women.