For the fourth consecutive year, partisan disputes have obstructed the approval of the state budget, so the 2026 fiscal year began without an endorsed expenditure for the entity.
Opposition deputies have imposed changes to Nuevo León’s budget, which opened political disputes between political parties.
To unblock the state budget, deputies from Morena, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and the National Action Party (PAN) in Nuevo León agreed to join in an alliance that also seeks to stop the positioning of Governor Samuel García.
That legislative alliance would be unprecedented in the country; it would take the form of the vote on a modified 2026 budget for the state, and is shaping up a few hours before President Claudia Sheinbaum visits the state this weekend.
In the entity, the president will lead the inauguration of the Industrial and Services Technological Baccalaureate Center in the municipality of Garza García. The second event will be the delivery of the Housing Program in the municipality of Juárez, events that will be held in a scenario of confrontation between Morena and the governor.
This is the fourth consecutive year in which disputes between the opposition and President Samuel García, who is a member of Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), have prevented the start of the fiscal year with an approved budget.
But now, unlike in 2023, 2024, and 2025, Morena, which is the third political force in Nuevo León, called on the PRI and PAN to form an alliance so that together in Congress they can confront the governor, and overcome the veto imposed by him on the budget that was approved in December.
That economic package had fundamental modifications made by legislators, so the president refused to exercise it.
On February 4, the leader of Morena, Luisa María Alcalde, visited the entity and met with the bench of nine local Morena deputies.
At a press conference, he invited the PRI and PAN to join his position: to unite their votes to approve a 2026 budget under certain conditions.
These were not to authorize any new state indebtedness; to tear down the increase in transport fares, to give more resources to the municipalities – to begin with, those that were withheld from them in 2024 and 2025 – and above all, to cut state spending on advertising and travel expenses.
The conditions set by Morena were accepted by the PRI and PAN, all located in the same tune.
And this Thursday, February 5, they were reflected in the approval, in the Congressional Budget Committee, of the Budget and Revenue Law opinions, which could be taken to a vote in the plenary session on February 11.
Source: Expansion Politica
