Pact for Mexico Moves Forward, But Most Complex Issues Still to Come Mauricio Torres - CNN Mexico
go to original August 28, 2013

MEXICO CITY - In the first nine months of PRI leader Enrique Peña Nieto's presidential term, Mexico's administration and major parties have implemented 17 commitments of the Pact for Mexico and launched another 74, 95% of the total. This figure has led them to suggest that the agreement is yielding "good results," but they admit that the remaining items are those in the most difficult areas: energy, political and tax reform.

Of the commitments that have been carried out, five have to do with education reform and six with telecommunication reform, which were approved by Congress and took effect this year.

The first aims to improve the quality of education by evaluating teachers, giving more autonomy to schools, expanding the school day to eight hours and requiring that schools offer nutritious meals to students. The second aims to increase competition in radio, television, telephone and internet markets, granting more licenses and limiting the percentage of the market that one company can control.

Former Senator Santiago Creel, a representative from the National Action Party (PAN) on the Governing Council of the Pact for Mexico, emphasized the approval of both reforms in under a year and said that the government would not have succeeded without opposition support.

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