President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that Esthela Damián will resign from the Presidency's Legal Counselorship on April 30 to seek Morena's candidacy for Guerrero governor. She invited Morena president Luisa María Alcalde to take the role, though Alcalde requested time to decide. The move is part of an ultimatum to her cabinet to resign if pursuing 2027 election candidacies.
During her morning press conference on April 22, Claudia Sheinbaum revealed that Esthela Damián, the Presidency's legal counsel, will leave the post to join Morena's candidate selection process for Guerrero governor in the 2027 midterm elections. "Esthela wants to participate there in Guerrero, but she has to leave the Legal Counselorship. I told her ‘Are you sure you want to leave it?’ and she said yes. She has done a very good job," the president said.
Sheinbaum invited Luisa María Alcalde, Morena's national president elected in September 2024, to succeed her. "Yesterday I decided to invite Luisa María Alcalde to the Legal Counselorship. I made the decision to invite her and she said she will think about it," she explained. Alcalde expressed feeling honored: "I feel very honored that President Claudia Sheinbaum thought of me" and asked for "a little time to think about it".
The announcement follows Sheinbaum's ultimatum to her cabinet: those seeking candidacies must resign. Other cases include Andrea Chávez, aiming for Chihuahua governorship. Ricardo Monreal, Morena's coordinator in the Chamber of Deputies, praised Alcalde as a "respectable, upright, capable person" and said her potential departure is normal in political parties.
If Alcalde accepts, Morena would convene a National Congress to elect a new president, with the general secretary temporarily taking over.
