Mexico's Morena party's Senate caucus selected Senator Higinio Martínez Miranda as its candidate to preside over the Senate's Mesa Directiva for the third year of the 66th Legislature, leaving incumbent Gerardo Fernández Noroña out of the agreement. ^[1] Higinio Martínez Miranda assumed the presidency of the Mexican Senate and recognized the right of all senators to express themselves with absolute freedom and without restrictions. ^[2] Higinio Martínez stated that the presidency of the Senate will not reprimand any senator or congresswoman for their words, guaranteeing absolute freedom of expression. ^[3] Senator Enrique Inzunza returned to the Mexican Senate after 125 days of absence on the evening of the session. ^[4] The United States government announced on April 29 that it had requested Inzunza's extradition for his alleged relationship with the Sinaloa Cartel. ^[5] Senator Lilly Téllez stated during a session of the Permanent Commission of the Senate that Higinio Martínez promised her he would not cut her microphone before he was proposed for the presidency of the Mesa Directiva. ^[6] In a letter dated 2026-08-28, Gerardo Fernández Noroña explained he did not attend Morena's plenary meeting because he disagreed with the procedure used to choose the next president of the Senate's Mesa Directiva. ^[7] Lilly Téllez also claimed that Noroña's own Morena caucus no longer wants him, asserting that Morena members showed no interest in backing him again. ^[8] Noroña rejected that his absence was due solely to recovery from a fracture in his left wrist and said his absence 'is the rupture of consensus,' asserting he consciously refuses to be part of that agreement. ^[9] Higinio Martínez declared that it is the responsibility of the Mexican people, the electors, to judge what is expressed and how it is expressed in the Senate. ^[10] Senator Lilly Téllez of the National Action Party stated that Higinio Martínez promised her he would never cut off her microphone on the podium. ^[11] Morena senators, including Ana Francis Chiquete Elizalde, Antonino Morales, and Lucía Trasviña, greeted Inzunza with hugs and enthusiastic salutations upon his return. ^[12]