Power Reform: Mario Delgado urged approval of AMLO's initiative “without party distinction”

Mario Delgado, Morena's national president, urged all legislators from all parliamentary forces to vote in favor of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's (AMLO) Electricity Reform, as this would be a gesture “in favor of Mexico and not in favor of transnational corporations.”

During a statement to the media on Monday, March 28, Delgado Carrillo said that the federal executive's initiative represents “a great opportunity to vindicate history” and “to recover that revolutionary nationalism that was buried by the neoliberal period.”

He said that the reform that seeks to guarantee for the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) 54% participation in the sector is to bet on the future and development of Mexico. “Today is a great opportunity to vindicate history; to recover that revolutionary nationalism that was buried by the neoliberal period,” he said.

The licensed deputy argued that regardless of the bench in which they are active, the deputies are representatives of the people of Mexico and, consequently, must promote the greater good of the Mexican people. “They must leave behind the practices of the past that for years dominated legislative action and pass reforms that benefit the people.”

With regard to the militancy of Morena National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the partisan president acknowledged the efforts of the officials who organized the more than 500 informative assemblies of the reform, since this gesture represents a big difference in relation to similar initiatives.

Meanwhile, the Electricity Reform is advancing in the federal legislature. On Monday, the decision board of the initiative was installed, which is made up of the united committees on energy and constitutional points of the Chamber of Deputies.

Manuel Rodríguez, president of the Energy Commission, gave a brief statement to the media in which he pointed out several points, but the most important one is that the initiative will be subject to change by virtue of convincing parliamentary opponents and that the reform is passed.

He recalled that with the parties promoting the 4Q: Morena, the Labour Party (PT) and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), in the Lower House, they gather only 277 votes out of the 334 they need to approve the presidential initiative, so they must convince 60 more deputies.

“They don't go (the opponents) if there are no such or that contributions,” he said during the chacaleo, “I am telling you that there will be contributions, I don't want to get ahead of myself, because today, we are precisely starting that process of ruling,” he said; however, he assured that these changes will be made to the extent that they do not contravene the” original spirit of the initiative”.

To try to convince the opposition, the Morenista reaffirmed his commitment to ensure that 46% of the sector remains in the hands of the private sector and that the sector grows to 6% per year. It should be remembered that the market for the entire electricity sector in Mexico is 6.3 billion pesos, which means that 2.9 trillion pesos of this would belong to private companies, which will increase to 6% per year.

Finally, he reiterated that what is irremovable in the legislation is that the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is the one who has the 54% stake in the sector (generation, transmission, distribution and marketing) and that lithium belongs to the Mexican State.

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