Political Algebra of Energy Reform

MEXICO - Report 19 Aug 2013 by Mauricio González, Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary The debate on energy reform is formally underway now that President Enrique Peña Nieto unveiled his energy reform proposal. It proved to be less ambitious than many in the private sector and on the right had hoped for, as the government continues to walk a fine political line that leaves open the possibility of reaching a broad agreement with all the major parties in Congress while also holding at bay elements within the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that are opposed to a radical liberalization of the sector. Government concerns about opposition on the ...

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