Shannon K. O'Neil: Public Perceptions of Mexico's Reform Agenda Shannon K. O'Neil - Council on Foreign Relations
go to original September 25, 2013

Woodrow Wilson Center, Mexico Institute

Vianovo, a strategy consultancy, recently released a poll looking at Mexican impressions of the Peña Nieto government’s economic reform agenda. Interviewing 1,000 people in late August, they found that education reform is the public’s biggest priority - likely due to the teachers’ union protests (which snarled traffic around the capital for weeks) and to the heavy press as the Congress debated secondary legislation (passed in early September).

Coming in second is energy reform, with nearly a fourth of Mexicans considering it to be the most important issue at the moment (electoral, tax, and telecommunication reforms all garnered less than 10 percent of responses).

Though the poll finds that not that many Mexicans have seen or read much about the current energy initiatives in front of Congress (just 50 percent), a slight majority are in favor of the reform.

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