Done Deal: Mexico Congress Proves Constitutionality of Energy Reform Prensa Latina
go to original December 18, 2013

The Permanent Commission of the Congress of Mexico today upheld the constitutionality of the energy reform, after 24 local legislative ratified the initiative approved by deputies and senators last week.

Six days after the Senate and Congress give their endorsement, the president of the Board, Ricardo Anaya, was commissioned to communicate the validity of the changes to Articles 25, 27 and 28 of the constitution, which for the first time since 1938 opened the hydrocarbons sector to private investment.

In less than 20 minutes at the start of its regular session, lawmakers met the necessary formalities and now sent the measure to the federal chief executive, Enrique Peña Nieto, for enactment.

Before the declaration, several left-wing lawmakers took the floor to express their anti-reform position, while showing signs with "EPN, traitor", referring to the Mexican president.

Leftist groups consider the energy project amounts to deliver the country's resources to foreign capital and state that other previous privatization reforms have not translated into benefits for citizens. Energy reform Monday became the constitutional initiative of the current legislature that was fastest supported by 17 of 32 state legislatures, figure required to go to the Executive.

The bill will allow private contracts in the exploration and extraction of oil and other hydrocarbons that are in the subsoil of the nation.

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