Overview

• The presidency sent Encinas’s nomination to the Senate through the Interior Ministry, and the chamber’s leadership referred it to the Foreign Relations Commission for analysis.
• Commission president Alejandro Murat said the panel will meet Tuesday at 5 p.m. to debate the designation and could move it to the full Senate.
• With Morena and allies holding a majority on the commission, rapid approval is considered likely, and one report says a plenary vote could come as soon as Wednesday.
• The official filing names Encinas as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to serve as Mexico’s permanent representative to the OAS in Washington, D.C.
• Encinas, currently Mexico City’s planning chief and a former human rights subsecretary who led the Ayotzinapa truth commission, is being tapped as tensions have risen after OAS observers criticized Mexico’s judicial election and Sheinbaum rejected their recommendations.