Maru Campos explains absence from Sheinbaum’s government report: “I did not feel invited out of consideration”

María Eugenia Campos says she knows why she was the only governor absent from Claudia Sheinbaum’s second government report. In a statement issued after the event, the Chihuahua governor said the invitation did not feel like a gesture of consideration.

“I understand that I was the only governor who did not attend, and that this has generated speculation,” Campos said. “One knows well when an invitation is out of obligation and when it is out of consideration.”

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I understand that I was the only governor who did not attend, and that this has generated speculation. One knows well when an invitation is out of obligation and when it is out of consideration.

She linked her decision to accusations against her and what she described as an offensive launched because she was fulfilling her government responsibilities. “After the accusations that have been made against me, after the offensive that was undertaken for fulfilling my responsibilities as governor, I did not feel invited out of consideration,” she said.

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After the accusations that have been made against me, after the offensive that was undertaken for fulfilling my responsibilities as governor, I did not feel invited out of consideration.

Campos said her absence also reflected prudence and consideration for the president. She decided to stay in the state and attend her own public and private engagements instead, adding that her presence might have made many people uncomfortable.

“In these times of polarization cultivated from power, we cannot expect genuinely republican acts,” she said. Campos added that she did not represent herself but the people of Chihuahua. She reaffirmed her readiness to cooperate with the federal government for the benefit of the state’s residents.

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In these times of polarization cultivated from power, we cannot expect genuinely republican acts.