Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum announced in a video from Palacio Nacional on Tuesday that Ariadna Montiel resigned from Bienestar and that Leticia Ramírez will take over on April 29.
- Montiel said she will seek Morena’s national presidency, with party bodies expected to elevate her at an extraordinary National Congress on Sunday, May 3.
- Luisa María Alcalde is slated to become the Presidency’s legal counsel on May 1, leaving the Morena post she is expected to hand off in the same party process.
- Sheinbaum stressed that pensions for older adults and other federal supports will continue without interruption because these programs are protected in the Constitution and run through Bienestar.
- Ramírez is a former education secretary and Sheinbaum aide with long ties to the movement, a profile chosen to keep nationwide social-program operations steady as Morena recalibrates its organization.