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They demand declassification of Pemex audits

Deputies of the National Action Party (PAN) demanded that President Claudia Sheinbaum declassify the financial reviews and audits of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) during the administration of Víctor Rodríguez Padilla. They considered the argument that it compromises strategic information “vague.”

This, after EL UNIVERSAL revealed that days before resigning from Pemex, Rodríguez Padilla classified the findings of internal audits as “reserved” for three years.

“False, it is about covering the corrupt backs of this man accused by his wife of physical abuse and domestic violence,” declared PAN member Paulina Rubio.

He added that reserving the information is a sign of the President’s “unconditional love and support” for women’s aggressors. “Now the president gives us a new face, her commitment to opacity and corruption in Pemex.”

Shield against corruption

Ernesto Sánchez, federal deputy of the PAN and member of the Transparency and Anti-Corruption Commission, warned that this is “a new attempt to shield corruption from citizen scrutiny.”

He pointed out that access to information is a constitutional right and that reservation is only justified exceptionally, not to hide irregularities or protect “friends” of the regime.

“Morena has turned the exception into the rule. What should be maximum publicity is used to close files and avoid accountability. Transparency cannot be applied only to adversaries. Reserving information of public interest feeds the suspicion of impunity,” said Sánchez.

Federico Döring, GPPAN spokesperson, stated that “all of Víctor Rodríguez’s misdeeds at Pemex before he left will remain hidden.” He pointed out that oil spills and “corrupt” contracts given to companies related to López Obrador’s children will be protected.

“Sheinbaum’s government protects this man so much that they watched his back so that the deals he made under higher instructions would not be known,” added Döring.

Raúl Torres Guerrero, local PAN deputy, assured that Pemex “is practically bankrupt” and reserving information compromises the administrative failure and would turn on red lights for international rating agencies. “For the world, Pemex is no longer a solid company but a burden for the Mexican State.”

Torres criticized that Mexico cannot compete “when it has corrupt companies that do not provide guarantees for investment, send oil to dictatorships like Cuba or give contracts to friends of children of former populist presidents like AMLO.”

Two tickets for deputies

The electoral advisor Uuc-kib Espadas Ancona will present a key proposal to the General Council of the INE: allow citizens to vote directly for multi-member deputies in the 2026-2027 federal process.

The initiative proposes dividing the election into two ballots. One will contain the relative majority candidates; the other, the group names of those who the parties nominate as proportional representation.

Espadas announced that he will present his model to his fellow councilors at the end of September or beginning of October.

Cost and logistics

The counselor acknowledged that issuing an extra ballot would imply an additional expense of between 200 and 250 million pesos, within the usual INE printing package. However, he pointed out that, after the experience of the election of the Judiciary in 2025, it would be possible to put both ballots in the same ballot box and do the counting separately, as is already done.

No need for legal reform

Espadas clarified that the INE has the power to implement this change without a legal reform. According to him, the April electoral reform was the right time to legislate it, but the authority can act on its own.

“The electoral authority does have the possibility of implementing two ballots for the election of deputies even without this legal reform, I insist, since this would fully guarantee the freedom of voting through the two current election methods,” he explained.

The debate is just beginning, but the proposal opens the door to a transformation in the way federal legislators are elected.

President Claudia Sheinbaum avoided immediately taking a position on recommendation 208VG/2026 of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in the Ayotzinapa case. The president said that she will wait for the Truth Commission and the Prosecutor’s Office to present greater progress.

Sheinbaum explained that he asked the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, to carry out an exhaustive analysis of the CNDH document, headed by Rosario Piedra Ibarra. The objective is to define a government position based on the new findings.

“I prefer that it be reported what the data is, what the investigation that has been done, what are the new lines of investigation that were initiated after our arrival to the government (…) and that within that framework an opinion could be presented,” said the head of the Executive.

No participation of the Government in the report

Sheinbaum clarified that the Federal Government did not participate in the preparation of the CNDH report. He reiterated his administration’s commitment to the fathers and mothers of the 43 missing normal students to achieve truth, justice and locate the students.