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Mexico’s President to challenge the Court over power law

Mexico City, Feb 1 (Prensa Latina) The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will challenge a decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) on the electricity law and will make another proposal for constitutional reform this month, he announced today.

In his morning press conference, he again denounced the Judiciary for completely handing over to private interests, and called yesterday’s action by the SCJN to reverse that law approved by Congress in 2021 a betrayal of the homeland by the ministers who approved its unconstitutionality.

He said that every time there is an initiative to put the public interest ahead and not allow profit to prevail, every time they seek to protect the people, defend the popular economy against these ambitious people, they have the Judiciary on their side that defends foreign capital.

For this reason, he announced that he is considering including in the package of reforms that he will send to Congress next February 5 a modification to the Constitution to leave it as it was before the so-called energy reform of 2013.

To leave it as President Adolfo Lopez Mateos left it because if not, imagine, how are we going to accept the predominance of private power over public power, he said.

He insisted that the approved electricity industry law did take into account the private sector to which it granted 46 percent of sales and distribution, equivalent to Argentina’s total consumption, and the CFE 54 percent and the privilege of being the first to upload the state product to the electricity distribution network.

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