Lopez Obrador Urges PAN, PRD Senators to Vote Against Energy Reforms EFE
go to original October 28, 2013

Thousands of supporters of leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador packed into the Zocalo, Mexico City's largest plaza, for a rally against energy industry and tax reforms on Sunday. (EFE)

Mexico City, Oct 28 (EFE).- Leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged senators from Mexico's largest opposition parties at a rally over the weekend to form a coalition to vote against the energy and tax reforms proposed by the Peña Nieto administration.

Senators from the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, and the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, should vote "with absolute independence, as true representatives of the people," against the reforms proposed by President Enrique Peña Nieto, Lopez Obrador said in a address delivered to thousands of his supporters in Mexico City's Zocalo plaza on Sunday.

"The total of the votes of the senators from the PAN and PRD caucuses in the Senate, plus the votes from the PT (Workers' Party) and Citizens Movement, make up a majority. That is, the final decision is in their hands," the leftist politician said.

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