Shortly after the Senate decided to part ways with Plascencia Villanueva, a list of potential candidates emerged, which included Gonzalez Perez; Mauricio Farah, secretary general of the Chamber of Deputies; ex-deputy foreign relations secretary Patricia Olamendi; Sara Irene Herrerias Guerra, head of the federal agency to support victims of crime; Ricardo Bucio, director of the anti-discrimination council (Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminacion,
CONAPRED); and Luis Gonzalez Placencia, former director of the Mexico City human rights commission (Comision de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal, CDHDF).