In December 2024, Ricardo Monreal and Adán Augusto López, Morena’s leaders in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, were in an open dispute. Adán Augusto was angered by a cut to the Senate’s budget. He had also pointed to possibly irregular contracts from the time when Monreal led the Senate’s governing board.
On the night of December 16, both men went to the National Palace and met President Claudia Sheinbaum. The next morning she said: “Son nuestros adversarios los que hacen grande todo esto pero hay mucha unidad en nuestro movimiento” (It is our opponents who make all this big, but there is a lot of unity in our movement).