The chosen candidate was Ernestina Godoy, but the profile of another former Legal Counselor of the Government of the State of Mexico during the time of the former PRI governor Eruviel Ávila Villegas, now a federal deputy for Morena, also drew attention. In fact, when in January 2019 then-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appointed Luz María Zarza as Legal Director of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Senator Higinio Martínez expressed his displeasure to the media about the lawyer's ties with the PRI of Enrique Peña Nieto. However, there is a second option that is gaining momentum among the members of the Presidential Cabinet, and it is not Undersecretary Arturo Medina Padilla. This is the lawyer Luz María Zarza, who is being pushed by the ruling group in the State of Mexico. In terms of coordination, the goal is to improve the work of the Attorney General's Office after Alejandro Gertz Manero left the 'hot seat' to the former Legal Counselor. Therefore, the decision from the Presidency must go in the same direction, and Arturo Zaldívar seems to be the natural choice for Claudia Sheinbaum. 'If this person is the one who is going to fight corruption within Pemex, something is wrong with the Fourth Transformation,' added the Texcoco native. As 2025 draws to a close, the rise of Luz María Zarza from the Government of the State of Mexico and Pemex could culminate in the Presidential Cabinet of Claudia Sheinbaum with the help of Governor Delfina Gómez's group, leaving aside the powerful and influential retired minister, Arturo Zaldívar. In the Morena leadership, she is being linked to the Government Secretariat of Horacio Duarte, after he failed in his bid for a ministry on the Supreme Court of Justice. Despite the doubts in the Cabinet, Aguilar and Lenia support Zaldívar for the position of Legal Counsel. Now, Zarza Delgado has appeared in the final shortlist along with Maribel Bojorges Beltrán, whom the Presidency chose from the 10 profiles submitted by the Chamber of Deputies. Following the departure of Ernestina Godoy from the Legal Counselor's office, President Claudia Sheinbaum faces a replacement of the same gender if she does not want to make a third or fourth change. In the hallways of the National Palace, everyone points to the head of the General Coordination Office of Policy and Government as the successor who will lead the strategy and legal defense of the Federal Executive. 'She impeccably represents what the President of Mexico called the most corrupt political class in the entire country, which is the one from the State of Mexico,' Martínez Miranda said at the time. The formation of the Presidential Cabinet is taking time due to gender parity issues. But doubts are accumulating around the figure of Arturo Zaldívar. It is known that the teams of Godoy and Zaldívar lobbied several reforms and legislative initiatives by Sheinbaum Pardo in the Senate of the Republic and the Chamber of Deputies.
