Overview

• The Chamber of Deputies scheduled a preparatory session for August 31 and a Congress plenary for September 1 at 5 p.m. to formally receive President Claudia Sheinbaum’s First Government Report from Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez.
• Sergio Gutiérrez Luna confirmed the Mesa Directiva will be renewed under the legal alternation framework, with the final selection to be decided by the full chamber.
• PAN asserts the Organic Law grants it the presidency as the second force and rejects altering that order by negotiation, while Movimiento Ciudadano signaled conditional backing for PAN’s potential nominee Kenia López.
• Morena lawmakers say a majority favors honoring a prior political agreement on which faction leads the chamber, note the plenary will decide, and highlight past reforms with a goal of advancing at least 20 more changes.
• The new legislative year will take up a constitutional change to tackle extortion, pending justice and security reforms, and the 2026 economic package that arrives September 8 with deadlines of October 20 for the revenue law, October 31 for Senate approval, and November 15 for the budget.