Mexican President's Agenda Enters a Decisive Phase in Push to Remake Institutions Nick Miroff - The Washington Post
go to original September 28, 2013

Protesters confront police standing behind shields during a protest against the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto before the opening of a new legislative session in Mexico City Sept. 1. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is entering a critical stage of his term, analysts say, as his administration faces growing resistance to its wide-ranging, fast-track push to remake the country’s institutions.

Peña Nieto is under fire from Mexico’s left for taking on powerful teachers unions and for a proposal to open the state oil monopoly to private investment. On the right, opposition is building to his plan for tax hikes on the wealthy, corporations and a broad share of the middle class.

More moves are still to come, aimed at breaking up telephone and broadcast monopolies, overhauling the criminal justice system, election rules and other targets, all stacked on the president’s lengthy, urgent to-do list.

After 10 months in office, Peña Nieto’s approval rating — 56 percent in the latest national poll — is lower than those of his two most recent predecessors at the same stage. But his administration says it is pressing ahead, backed by a rare and fragile consensus among the country’s major political parties to take on long-festering problems as quickly as possible.

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