Overview
- The Diputación Permanente of the Congress of Sinaloa voted unanimously on Sunday to grant Governor Rubén Rocha Moya a second temporary license with no set return date, starting the formal process to install an interim executive.
- Rocha Moya filed the new license just 34 hours after briefly resuming the governorship following a 112-day absence that began in May while he cooperated with investigations tied to U.S. accusations.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum publicly criticized putting personal ambition over public duty but then said the license was “the best for Sinaloa” and denied direct coordination with Rocha Moya on his decision.
- The legislature has called an extraordinary Pleno for Monday to name an interim governor under state constitutional rules, a move that stokes a political scramble inside Morena ahead of the 2027 gubernatorial cycle.
- U.S. Department of Justice allegations against ten Sinaloa officials and ongoing FGR and UIF actions remain unresolved, and the PAN is demanding institutional steps such as impeachment or desaparición de poderes.