Jorge Romero Herrera, the national leader of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), announced a national mobilization to defend Chihuahua Governor María Eugenia "Maru" Campos [1].
The move signals an escalating confrontation between Mexico's primary opposition party and the ruling Morena party over the legal and political status of the Chihuahua governor.
Romero Herrera said the PAN will implement various citizen actions and expressions in the coming days [1]. These efforts are intended to defend democracy, civil liberties, and the governorship of Campos [2]. The party said the current situation is a political persecution led by Morena [2].
This mobilization follows a counter-effort by the Morena party. Morena organized a march on May 16 [3] to demand the removal of legal immunity, or desafuero, for Governor Campos [3].
The PAN intends to use this national platform to challenge the legitimacy of the demands made by Morena. By framing the issue as a defense of democratic freedoms, the party seeks to broaden the conflict from a local dispute in Chihuahua to a national conversation about political targeting [1, 2].
While Morena focuses on the legal mechanism of desafuero to hold the governor accountable, the PAN is positioning the governor as a symbol of institutional resistance against the central government's influence [2, 3].
“The party said the current situation is a political persecution led by Morena.”
The clash between PAN and Morena over Governor Maru Campos reflects a broader trend of judicial and political warfare in Mexico. By attempting to remove her immunity, Morena is utilizing legal channels to pressure an opposition governor, while PAN is leveraging public mobilization to frame those legal actions as authoritarianism. This tension indicates that Chihuahua has become a primary battleground for the struggle between federal power and state-level opposition.
