Overview
- The Consejo de Desarrollo Metropolitano unanimously approved the expansion to 84 demarcations, adding 16 Mexico City alcaldías, 59 Estado de México municipalities, eight Hidalgo municipalities and Huitzilac in Morelos, and formally incorporated Morelos into the coordinating body.
- At the Primera Sesión Ordinaria 2026 held at AIFA the council adopted new operating guidelines, a modifying agreement to strengthen its structure, and launched a public consultation to update the Programa de Ordenación, the region’s main territorial plan.
- Clara Brugada proposed creating a Policía Metropolitana and advancing a C5 Metropolitano to share intelligence and coordinate operations across jurisdictions, but both measures remain at the proposal and design stage pending legal and intergovernmental agreements.
- Officials emphasized metropolitan solutions for shared problems such as water governance, integrated mobility and environmental protection because the zone serves about 23 million people, carries over one million daily workers and generates roughly 28 percent of national GDP.
- Next steps include technical design of metropolitan institutions, intergovernmental operational agreements and the consultation process for the updated territorial plan, actions that will determine how quickly new police, data-sharing and fiscal cooperation measures move from plan to practice.