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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | February 2008 
Mexican Hope Against Privatization
 Prensa Latina
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| | The president of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, Ruth Zavaleta. | | |
Mexico City - The president of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, Ruth Zavaleta reported that 80 percent of Mexicans are opposed to privatization of the energy sector and denied constitutional modifications to that effect.
Zavaleta met with a group of accredited foreign correspondents and informed of the work of the Lower House and future actions of congresspersons in favor of privatizing the oil and electric industries.
Questioned by Prensa Latina she denied that changes in the constitutional prohibition of opening these sectors to private companies through modification of additional laws or regulating the decision included in the constitution.
"There is not the least possibility of using this road to open the doors to privatization of the energetic area because any change in the laws go against articles in the constitution forbidding it," she pointed out.
She commented on a proposal by Cuauthemoc Cardenas who called for a strengthening and modernization of Petroleos Mexicans (PEMEX) but without giving up control of the company to private investors.
She added that the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), of which she is a member, will not present an alternate project to allow PEMEX to analyze propositions of the remaining political organizations, particularly the government party.
She explained that the PRD categorically opposes privatization and considered that the official Partido de Acción Nacional recognized the rejection of the nation and without the number of votes for its approval will hold off from presenting any kind of project.
On the other hand, she justified the rejection of a reform of the penal law by her party because it contains authorization of actions by the police that could be used for repression. |
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