AMLO to Send Congress Bill to Eliminate Daylight Saving Time Mexico News Daily
go to original June 20, 2022

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President López Obrador announced last week that he will send a bill to Congress to eliminate daylight saving time.

The bill will go to either the Chamber of Deputies or the Senate this week, he told reporters at his regular news conference.

“I’m going to send it because I have the studies and I have a survey,” López Obrador said, explaining that the government asked people whether they want daylight saving time or not.

The president said earlier this month that government studies showed that the savings generated by daylight saving time are “minimal and the harm to health is considerable.”

López Obrador said that the Interior Ministry conducted a telephone survey that found 71% support for elimination. He didn’t reveal how many people were polled but pledged to present the survey results.

AMLO indicated that he was unconcerned by the possibility that opposition lawmakers will stop his bill from becoming law, asserting that he was doing his bit by getting the initiative to Congress. Asked whether he would eliminate summer time by decree if lawmakers don’t approve his bill, he responded:

“It’s better that it’s done in Congress. … It’s better off being a reform to some of the secondary laws than a constitutional reform.”

Former president Ernesto Zedillo established the nationwide observance of daylight saving time by decree in early 1996.

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