Morena National Council Convenes to Elect Party Leadership; Sinaloa Stabilization Coordinated; FGR Continues Extradition Review

On Sunday May 3, the Morena National Council's two-day meeting (Saturday–Sunday) was underway to elect a new party president following Luisa María Alcalde Luján's transition to the Executive Legal Office. President Sheinbaum had directed Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch to establish formal coordination protocols with newly installed interim Governor Yeraldine Bonilla Valverde on Sinaloa security — signaling federal institutional support for the state's stabilization. Mexico's Attorney General's Office (FGR) continued reviewing the U.S. DOJ extradition request documentation for Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya, with preliminary indications pointing to insufficient evidence for provisional detention — a legally required step under the Mexico-U.S. extradition treaty. International press across the weekend — CNN, Al Jazeera, PBS, The Washington Post — widely covered Mexico's constitutional response to an unprecedented foreign indictment of a sitting state governor. Culiacán residents had mixed reactions to Rocha Moya's departure: some cheering the accountability signal, others concerned about political vacuum during an ongoing Chapitos-Mayiza cartel civil war. By Sunday evening it was confirmed that former Social Welfare Secretary Ariadna Montiel Reyes had been elected Morena's new National President by the Council, succeeding Alcalde.