Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya, a MORENA party member, announced a temporary leave from office late Friday following U.S. Department of Justice charges alleging his involvement with the Sinaloa Cartel. President Claudia Sheinbaum stated Mexico would extradite officials only with irrefutable evidence, noting this as the first such public U.S. charges against a sitting high-ranking official. Rocha denied the allegations as false and malicious.