Overview
- About 20 metropolitan and rural mayors delivered a formal written demand at the Palacio de Gobierno on Monday asking the state to transfer between 1,200 and 1,700 million pesos they say are owed to municipal treasuries.
- The mayors say the withheld sums include participaciones and revenues from tax collections, traffic fines and vehicle registration renewals that must be passed to local governments for public services.
- Monterrey mayor Adrián de la Garza led the petition and warned the formal request could lead to administrative, financial and criminal actions if the state treasury does not remit the funds.
- Local officials say the shortfall is already limiting investment in security, street maintenance and basic services and that the current administration has previously retained participaciones in a pattern the mayors call illegal.
- If payments remain stalled, municipalities may file formal complaints and pursue financial remedies, and the dispute could curb planned local projects and force short-term cuts to services that affect residents directly.