Tatiana Clouthier to seek Morena candidacy for Nuevo León governorship

Tatiana Clouthier, a erstwhile national system curate who presently heads up the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME), volition question to correspond the Morena enactment astatine the 2027 gubernatorial predetermination successful the bluish authorities of Nuevo León.

Clouthier revealed her ambition during an interrogation with writer and governmental expert Fernando Cuevas, saying that portion she is presently committed to her enactment astatine the IME, she volition question Morena’s information erstwhile the enactment commences its campaigner enactment process.

Tatiana CLouthier anuncia que ira por la Gobernatura de Nuevo León. Esto a través del partido @PartidoMorenaMx pic.twitter.com/KyuD2HBgUx

— Fernando Cuevas (@FerCuevasMur) March 2, 2026

“We volition person to rise our hand,” she said.

Clouthier, who served arsenic system curate from aboriginal 2021 to precocious 2022 successful the authorities of ex-president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said she didn’t cognize whether Morena would take to prime a pistillate campaigner successful Nuevo León, arsenic it did for the 2021 gubernatorial predetermination successful that state.

The Federal Electoral Tribunal ruled successful December 2020 that parties had to nominate women candidates for politician successful astatine slightest 7 of the 15 states wherever elections were held successful 2021.

In 2027, gubernatorial elections volition beryllium held successful 17 states connected June 6. Voters volition elite 500 national deputies connected the aforesaid day to renew the little location of Congress.

Current Nuevo León Governor Samuel García, who represents the Citizens’ Movement (MC) party, is barred from seeking a 2nd term.

Samuel García of the Citizens’ Movement enactment is the existent politician of Nuevo León. (Gobierno de Nuevo León)

Morena, which was founded by López Obrador and backed Claudia Sheinbaum astatine the 2024 statesmanlike election, has a bulk successful some houses of national Congress and governs 23 of Mexico’s 32 national entities. It has ne'er held powerfulness successful Nuevo León, and that authorities has ne'er had a pistillate governor.

Clouthier vs. Colosio?

If Clouthier succeeds successful winning Morena’s information for politician of Nuevo León, 1 idiosyncratic against whom she could vie for the presumption is Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas, lad of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, who was assassinated successful Tijuana successful 1994 portion campaigning arsenic the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) campaigner up of that year’s statesmanlike election.

Colosio Riojas, an MC legislator who served arsenic politician of Monterrey from 2021 to 2024, said successful February that helium would question to correspond the Citizens Movement enactment astatine a gubernatorial predetermination adjacent year, though helium has not decided whether to tally successful Nuevo León oregon successful Sonora, wherever helium was born.

“It’s definite that I volition spell for 1 of the two, but the determination depends connected galore factors,” helium said successful a vigor interrogation successful mid-February.

García, representing the MC, easy won the 2021 gubernatorial predetermination successful Nuevo León, beating the second-placed candidate, Adrian De La Garza Santos of the PRI, by astir 9 points. Morena’s candidate, Clara Luz Flores Carrales, placed 4th with conscionable implicit 14% of the vote.

Clouthier would person to pull a overmuch higher percent of the ballot to go Nuevo León’s archetypal pistillate governor.

Who is Tatiana Clouthier?

Born successful Culiacán, Sinaloa, successful 1964, Clouthier is the girl of Leticia Carrillo and Manuel Clouthier, who represented the National Action Party (PAN) astatine the 1988 statesmanlike predetermination won by Carlos Salinas de Gortari. She was affiliated with the PAN for galore years earlier switching her allegiance to Morena astir a decennary ago.

Career person Tatiana Clouthier presently heads the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME). (Gobierno de México)

Clouthier, a semipermanent nonmigratory of the Monterrey metropolitan area, served arsenic López Obrador’s run manager up of the 2018 statesmanlike predetermination and subsequently represented Morena successful the little location of Congress betwixt 2018 and 2020. She replaced Graciela Márquez Colín arsenic system curate successful January 2021 and remained successful that presumption until October 2022, erstwhile she resigned.

Clouthier is an outspoken protagonist of President Sheinbaum, and successful 2025 joined her authorities arsenic caput of the IME, a national bureau dedicated to supporting Mexicans who unrecorded extracurricular Mexico, chiefly the millions of Mexicans who unrecorded successful the United States.

Citing “official information,” the paper El Financiero reported connected Monday that she is the “owner” of a existent property business. Various media reports accidental that Clouthier is simply a spouse of a household existent property company.

The existent IME main has besides worked arsenic a teacher and municipal authorities official, and served arsenic manager of precocious secondary acquisition astatine the Metropolitan University of Monterrey for respective years.

With reports from El Financiero