Nuevo León could have a plebiscite in 2026 so that Nuevo Leon residents can decide if they want the state to become an independent country.
This, after the State Electoral and Citizen Participation Institute of Nuevo León (IEEPCNL) resolved in favor of Gilberto Lozano’s request for a plebiscite and determined that it would be carried out if the State’s Superior Court of Justice considers it viable.
Lozano is a leader of the organization FRENAA, an organization that was once anti-López Obrador, and according to the resolution of the IEE, and the decision of the TSJNL, if it were considered viable, the necessary signatures for the plebiscite must be collected with the question “Would you agree that the state of Nuevo León be AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY?”.
In a session of the IEEPCNL, the electoral counselors also approved the electronic format for Gilberto Lozano to obtain signatures of citizen support through the INE mobile application, which can be used from the date informed by the Institute, and until July 31.
In this way, he would have to gather the signatures of at least 2% of the people registered on the State’s nominal list as of June 2025.
According to the National Electoral Institute, the current nominal list in Nuevo León is 4 million 484 thousand 528 people, so 89 thousand 691 signatures would be needed.
On November 20, Gilberto Lozano made the proposal to the IEE, and although the deadline to submit the notices of consultations to be held in 2025 expired in August, the electoral authority set the first Sunday of August 2026 as the tentative date.
The activist businessman, Gilberto Lozano, also made the proposal in the State Congress and the governor’s office to seek the independence of Nuevo León.
Lozano, who founded organizations such as the National Citizen Congress, FRENAA and ReNaCi, submitted the document to the authorities seeking that a popular consultation be taken into account to seek that Nuevo León leave the fiscal pact, and become an independent republic.
“We are completely different, we are not the same. The people of Nuevo León are hard-working, they are saving, we are aspirational, we are not going to bother anyone, whoever wants to stay in Tabasco, Chiapas, Guerrero, the states that shout: ‘Long live the Fourth Transformation!’, stay there, just don’t get in our way here,” he declared last September.
The activist bases his argument on articles 8, 35 and 39 of the Mexican Constitution and those in force in the Citizen Participation Law of Nuevo León.
It is not the first time that Gilberto Lozano has expressed his intention to seek Nuevo León independence, in addition to showing his rejection of the federal government and affirms that whoever wants to remain under the leadership of politicians allied to the 4T can do so, but not in Nuevo León.
Source: lasillarota
