The party leader took office in 2020 as provisional president and was formally elected in 2021. The National Action Party (PAN) and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) have begun to organize for the renewal of their leadership, with several candidates already expressing their intention to occupy these positions.
In a recent session of the Municipal Executive Committee of the PAN, it was decided that the State Council will elect the new state leadership through an extraordinary process, with 15 votes cast in a closed session. The meeting was held without the presence of the municipal party leader, Jesús Zaldívar Benavides, who requested leave for a short period.
During the session, it was agreed that the mandate of the current state leadership headed by Augusta Díaz de Rivera Díaz will end on December 24 of this year. Local PAN deputy, Rafael Micalco, expressed his discontent with the decision made, considering it a "betrayal" to the membership by not including the affiliates in the election of their next leader.
As for the candidates to preside over the State Executive Committee of PAN, the names of former mayors of Puebla, Eduardo Rivera Pérez and Adán Domínguez Sánchez, as well as the former mayor of San Andrés Cholula, Edmundo Tlatehui Percino, were mentioned. Micalco emphasized the constant demand of the affiliates to participate in this election process.
In the case of the PRI, local deputy Delfina Pozos Vergara, who is also the general secretary of the State Executive Committee (CDE), expressed her interest in leading the party. However, the renewal of the leadership is not scheduled until September 2025. Currently, Néstor Camarillo Medina is a senator of the Republic and holds the position of state leader of the PRI.
Pozos indicated that, for the moment, she is focused on her work as a legislator in the Puebla Congress and avoided confirming whether she will resign from her aspirations to support Néstor Camarillo's reelection.
