Overview
- The Senate's technical secretary sent a formal letter dated Oct. 5 asking the Foreign Ministry to facilitate senators' access to the Salón de Protocolo at Mexico City's airport.
- The Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores denied authorizing the use of the diplomatic salon and confirmed it did not grant access to legislators.
- Senate president Higinio Martínez disavowed the request, called it an 'error' attributed to the technical secretary Daniel Andrés Sibaja González, and said the Mesa Directiva would review the matter.
- President Sheinbaum publicly rejected special privileges for officials under the 'cero privilegios' austerity line and urged the SRE to clarify the record.
- The episode grew from recent complaints about airline VIP rules and has raised questions about protocol space, internal Senate procedures, and political optics that could prompt internal sanctions or procedural changes.