In September 2022, the Excélsior columnist Francisco Garfias read meaning in a seating plan. At the annual report of the governor of the State of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum and Ricardo Monreal, rivals for the Morena presidential nomination, sat in the front row. Adán Augusto López sat between them. Garfias called them “hermanos enemigos” (enemy brothers) and summed up the scene: “Muy cerca físicamente, muy lejos políticamente” (Very close physically, very far politically).