Mexico's ruling morena party appoints Ariadna Montiel as new leader
Ariadna Montiel Reyes vowed zero tolerance for corruption as she takes over the party after Luisa Maria Alcalde joined Sheinbaum’s administration.
- On Sunday, Mexico's ruling party named Ariadna Montiel Reyes as its new president, replacing Luisa Maria Alcalde, who stepped down to join President Claudia Sheinbaum's administration as legal advisor.
- Previously, Montiel served as minister of welfare under President Sheinbaum, a position she also held during the administration of former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
- Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha temporarily stepped down after the United States accused him of aiding the Sinaloa Cartel, a development preceding Montiel's appointment by days.
- Pledging a zero-tolerance policy, Montiel stated, "If we are certain that someone has committed an act of corruption, even if they won the primaries, they will not be candidates."
- Amid Washington's increasing pressure to root out official collusion with organized crime, Montiel called on Congress to support President Sheinbaum "today more than ever.
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Ariadna Montiel assumes presidency of Morena party
Former Welfare Minister Ariadna Montiel Reyes was elected unopposed on Sunday as president of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Mexico’s ruling party. Montiel’s ascension to leader of the party founded by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came just days after she resigned as welfare minister, a position she had held since 2022. She replaces Luisa María Alcalde, who stepped down as Morena president to take on the role of Pre…
Near Marcelo Ebrard, Mario Delgado and Martí Batres. In the midst of shouts, batons and the chorus of “pre-si-denta! you are not alone!”, Adam Augusto López was always quiet, serious, silent in yesterday’s session of the Morena National Congress. He only moved in his seat when he heard the words of Ariadna Montiel, the new president of the party: “This leadership will not tolerate corruption in any government of Morena, the corrupt have no place…
“My sincere congratulations to compañera Ariadna Montiel Reyes, elected new president of Morena at the VIII Extraordinary National Congress,” externed the Cuban head of state.
The National Congress of Training has processed the election of the former Secretary of Welfare as the new Chair of the National Executive Committee
In closed doors, 1,828 Morena national congressmen elected Ariadna Montiel as the national president of the party. Montiel, who only three days ago left the Welfare Secretariat, was proposed before the plenary to succeed Luisa María Mayor. Meanwhile, Oscar del Cueto García, who was its head of the Inter-Institutional Unit on Welfare, goes as Secretary of Finance. The darkist in charge of articulating the social programs sat in the front row, alo…
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