 After his term ended in the Chamber of Deputies, he became a PAN member and was named as the delegate of the IMSS to Chiapas; three years later, he left the party and became an advisor to that state's governor, Manuel Velasco Coello.In July 2016, during a visit by Andrés Manuel López Obrador to Tepic, he named Navarro "promoter of national sovereignty in Nayarit", serving as the beginning of his career in Morena and signaling that he would be the party's gubernatorial candidate in Nayarit in 2017.Navarro Quintero finished a distant third, with 12 percent of the vote.