Mexico's president invites big business to debate energy laws

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Mexico's president on Friday invited the heads of some of the most prominent companies in the country to defend the merits of his predecessors' energy policies, which he says give the private sector preferential treatment over public sector interests.

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gestures during a news conference at the National Palace, in Mexico City, Mexico February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Romero

“Big business corporations and retail chains pay lower rates than consumers for household consumption... and we believe those subsidies paid with the people’s money should disappear,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference. But, Lopez Obrador added, it was only fair that the beneficiaries of former President Enrique Pena Nieto’s policies have the right to reply.

He also invited representatives of local newspapers Reforma and El Universal, as well as Spain’s El Pais to come as well, arguing the media has taken the side of the private sector against his reform of the energy sector.

 

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