Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum said Marcelo Ebrard will stay on as economy secretary during an official review.
- The Anticorruption and Good Governance Secretariat opened an administrative inquiry after complaints that Ebrard’s son stayed six months in 2021 at the Mexican ambassador’s residence in London.
- Deputy Marcelo Torres Cofiño filed a criminal complaint with the federal prosecutor accusing Ebrard and former ambassador Josefa González Blanco of misuse of public resources.
- The deputy said the alleged conduct could be embezzlement, abuse of authority, and illicit exercise of public service.
- Sheinbaum praised Ebrard’s work on trade and investment and said the law requires the secretariat to examine any possible misuse of public property.