Leftest Democratic Revolution Party Wants Citizens to Protest Energy Reform Victor Mayen - The News
go to original November 15, 2013

MEXICO CITY – Days after calling for Mexico’s leftwing parties to close ranks to block President Enrique Peña Nieto’s proposed energy reform, the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) has also asked the country’s citizens to mobilize to stop the controversial measure.

“We will pass from political mobilization to social mobilization,” PRD Senator Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez said this week. “The first mobilization will be on Sunday, Nov. 17 and we will continue to work (to stop the reform) on all fronts. I would sum up our strategy in one phrase: As parliamentary as possible, but also with as many mobilizations as are needed.”

Manlio Fabio Beltrones, parliamentary coordinator of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the Chamber of Deputies, nevertheless said that he was confident that the reform — which would open Mexico’s state-run oil industry to private investment — would be passed before Dec. 15 with the support of the conservative National Action Party (PAN).

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