Overview
- PAN national leader Jorge Romero Herrera publicly named Hermosillo mayor Antonio Astiazarán Gutiérrez as the party’s statewide coordinator for the initiative called Defensa de la Patria, la Familia y la Libertad.
- Romero framed the move as the start of a new political phase for the party in Sonora and pointed to Astiazarán’s municipal record as the reason for his selection.
- Romero sharply criticized the National Electoral Institute and vowed that PAN will resist any INE leadership it views as aligned with Morena, explicitly invoking the controversy around Guadalupe Taddei.
- State PAN president Celina Aldana said the party will intensify organization in every municipality to “paint Sonora blue” and to defend democracy so future local governments are led by honest Sonorans.
- The campaign combines grassroots rebuilding with an institutional challenge to electoral oversight, a strategy that could reshape local races and raise tensions over how the INE is governed.