Overview

• President Claudia Sheinbaum said her electoral reform will include eliminating fuero for federal legislators, arguing lawmakers should not retain protections she says the presidency no longer holds.
• Her team outlined a timetable indicating the initiative will be developed in December and presented to Congress in February 2026 as part of a broader political package.
• Morena Senate leader Ricardo Monreal backed the proposal and said it will be analyzed upon arrival, while opposition figure Kenia López Rabadán signaled openness to debate if immunity is not used to evade the law.
• In Puebla, Congress president Laura Artemisa García Chávez paused debate on restoring fuero for deputies, with a local initiative from ex-deputy Samuel Aguilar Pala under review by the Comisión Instructora chaired by PAN deputy Marcos Castro Martínez.
• The announcement refocused attention on desafuero, the process in which the Chamber of Deputies can lift immunity, used in at least a dozen cases including René Bejarano, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Julio César Godoy Toscano, Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López, Cipriano Charrez and Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca.