Overview

• Morena senators will pick their next Senate president on August 28 during a plenary that includes meetings with cabinet secretaries and the presidential legal counsel.
• The contest has narrowed to Laura Itzel Castillo and Guadalupe Chavira, while Verónica Camino is reportedly in line for a vice presidency, according to parliamentary sources.
• Party operators are pushing for a unity choice that, according to reports, would carry President Claudia Sheinbaum’s approval to avoid fractures in the majority bloc.
• In the Chamber of Deputies, outgoing president Sergio Gutiérrez Luna said the body will follow the statutory rotation that places the PAN in the presidency starting September 1, with Morena’s plenary set for Saturday and the vote on Sunday.
• An internal Morena faction has floated shifting deputies to the PVEM to block the PAN, a move Ricardo Monreal rejects as unlawful, while more than 200 ex-electoral officials and public figures urged a consensus reform and PAN leader Jorge Romero complained of no formal invitation to co-design it.