Overview

• The INEGI reported a 6.8% decline in multidimensional poverty since 2022, representing about 13.4 million people exiting poverty and 2.1 million leaving extreme poverty between 2022 and 2024.
• Ricardo Monreal hailed the reduction as a “hazaña,” defended the financial sustainability of the Fourth Transformation’s transfer-based programs and pledged Morena’s backing for a nearly one-trillion-peso 2026 budget to extend them.
• PAN spokesperson Federico Döring dismissed the announcement as a smokescreen to obscure alleged Morena scandals and warned that cash transfers alone risk fostering clientelism without boosting economic productivity.
• PRI coordinator Rubén Moreira branded the figures “maquillaje,” pointing to sharp increases in healthcare deprivation rates in Chiapas, Hidalgo and Puebla as evidence the national gains mask regional setbacks.
• Local deputy Raúl Torres Guerrero and other critics urged deeper private-sector involvement and comprehensive economic reforms to ensure sustainable poverty reduction beyond social transfers.