The Nuevo León Congress approved an impeachment trial against Governor Samuel García over alleged triangulation of nearly one billion pesos.

This article by Vianney Carrera originally appeared in the June 13, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left-wing daily newspaper.

Monterrey, NL., The Anti-Corruption Commission of the Nuevo León Congress approved the initiation of an impeachment trial against Governor Samuel García Sepúlveda for alleged acts of triangulation of public resources (nearly one billion pesos) to companies related to the state governor, as well as for corruption.

In a session of the commission, with six votes in favor from the legislators of the PRI, PAN benches and only one member of Morena, as well as one against from Movimiento Ciudadano, it was endorsed that the petition will move to the full chamber; the governor will be given a term of 15 business days (June 23) to make his statement, either in person, in writing, or through a lawyer.

On June 8, the state leader of Morena, Anabel del Roble Alcocer, together with representatives and aspirants to the state’s governorship for that party, submitted the petition for impeachment against García Sepúlveda based on journalistic evidence.

If the procedure continues as established by law, the Anti-Corruption Commission proposes that the petition move to the full Congress in August, where the decision on the definitive declaration of procedence will be taken; at least 28 votes will be required from the 42 local deputies, and then the Superior Court of Justice will be notified to carry out the corresponding evaluation.

This is the fourth petition for impeachment that the state Congress has promoted against García Sepúlveda; the first was promoted in 2022 when he did not present the 2023 Fiscal Package on time and was remitted to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), which declared that the trial was totally valid, but that the Legislature does not have the authority to remove him from office. However, it forced the governor to present the Budget.

Supreme Court Invalidated Publication of Decrees

The second petition was in 2023 when he did not publish the decrees, reforms, and initiatives approved by the Legislature, a situation that also escalated to the SCJN, which ruled as invalid the publication of legislative decrees 340, 341, and 342 after the Legislature published them in its own Gaceta.

It concluded that the Nuevo León Congress does not have the authority to give force to the norms by that route, which implies an invasion of the exclusive powers of the state governor.

In 2024, the third petition was registered, after the elections for the Monterrey mayoralty, in which the head of the Executive was accused of intervention and inequity in the electoral process for the alleged improper use of public resources and violation of the principles of impartiality by promoting his wife and head of Amar a Nuevo León, Mariana Rodríguez, on the Senate ticket of Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas and Martha Herrera, as well as the presidential campaign of the current national coordinator of Movimiento Ciudadano, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, with the raffle of a Cybertruck pickup.

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