Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum said the PAN showed “very little sensitivity,” arguing the event could have waited 15 days and dismissing it as “the same place and the same people.”
- Federal updates on the flooding that framed the dispute reported 76 deaths across Veracruz, Hidalgo, Puebla, Querétaro and San Luis Potosí, with thousands affected.
- At the Oct. 18 event in Frontón México, PAN leader Jorge Romero presented a new logo, a digital re‑affiliation platform, and a candidate selection model using primaries, member votes and surveys, with openings to non‑members.
- Romero declared the party would not rely on electoral alliances going forward, marking a public break with the PRI after recent joint defeats.
- PRI figures including Carolina Viggiano and Manuel Añorve urged the PAN to reconsider, while Morena’s Luisa María Alcalde derided attendees as “the same unsellable figures,” and experts like Fernando Dworak criticized the changes as merely cosmetic.