Political scientist Denise Dresser Guerra once again commented on the Electricity Industry Law (LIE), which establishes a change in the order of energy dispatch in favor of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), an institution headed by Manuel Barlett Díaz.
Dresser's criticism arose after a discussion in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), in which the LIE was endorsed with four positions in favor and seven against; with only one vote missing to declare it unconstitutional.
In this way, the political columnist wrote the following message through her official Twitter account: “The SCJN sometimes behaves like a fast, shiny train. But sometimes it becomes a delayed, ancient, rusty train that does not arrive in time for crucial appointments with history. Today, when he validated #LeyBartlett, he sent Mexico to the last car, putting the future of the country at risk.”
In addition, Dresser Guerra retweeted the opinions of several Twitter users who condemned that only seven ministers demonstrated for declaring certain fractions of the LIE unconstitutional, considering that they violate free competition and create disadvantages in the production and use of clean energy because, because of the on the contrary, they promote the use of fuel oil.
“They are mediocre, servile lawyers with very few tables. Regardless of ideologies, the SCJN deserved judges of much higher technical quality” and “On the most urgent issue of our time, four Supreme Court Ministers condemn Mexico to a future of fuel oil despite being a power in renewable energy,” were some of the opinions shared by Denise Dresser.
The final vote was issued by Alfredo Gutiérrez Mena, a minister who affirmed that Article 27, section VI of the Constitution, defines the public service of electricity supply as an exclusive activity of the State.
Thus, the following ministers demonstrated because of the invalidity of the LIE: Javier Laynez, Juan Luis González, Mario Pardo, Margarita Ríoz, Norma Lucía Piña, Luis María Aguilar and Alberto Pérez; for their part, the four votes that endorsed the project were those of Yasmin Esquivel, Alfredo Gutiérrez, Arturo Zaldivar Lelo de Larrea and Loretta Ortiz, who was the rapporteur of the project.
The first section of the project was on the participation of the CFE in the order of dispatch to the Mexican Electricity System, so it will now have a priority place over private companies, considering that since the changes to the legal framework it is no longer mandatory to put clean energy in the first order.
Jorge Mario Pardo Rebolledo was the prime minister to speak at the Court and said that, in his consideration, this reform deprives consumers of access to cheaper and cleaner energy. He added that changes to the legal framework for the Electric System do not guarantee that the CFE produces energy more efficiently.
For her part, Minister Norma Lucía Piña Hernández did not share the methodology of the project of the minister rapporteur, Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, and in her position she established that according to her criteria the modification in the dispatch order violates the principle of free competition.
Likewise, Luis María Aguilar also took a view contrary to that of Loretta Ortiz and said that he will vote to declare the invalidity of some of the articles of the LIE.
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