“Very irresponsible for the government to put the T-MEC at risk”: Alejandro Moreno

Amid the controversy over the electricity reform initiative promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which is intended to be discussed and possibly approved next week in the Chamber of Deputies, the national leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Alejandro Moreno, Alito said that “it is very irresponsible for the government to jeopardize the T-MEC trade agreement,” noting that regulations and legislative initiatives promoted by the federal government respond more to the interests of “political revenge.”

Through several messages on his Twitter account, the PRI leader said that the actions of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's government generate uncertainty and lack of trust in investors.

“It is very irresponsible for the federal government to jeopardize the T-MEC agreements with the United States and Canada, creating uncertainty and lack of confidence for investors who generate thousands of jobs in the country,” he said in a first message.

In his second tweet, Moreno Cárdenas stated that “being on the side of the country means caring for and protecting the income of so many Mexican families that today are affected by the incompetence of a government, which prefers to give crumbs to buy loyalties, rather than generate decent jobs.

In a third message, Alejandro Moreno emphasized that “the regulations and initiatives of laws and agreements that the federal government promotes against foreign investors respond more to interests of political revenge than to the laws that mark the market and globalization today,” he wrote.

The PRI leader has assured that the legislators of his party will vote against the president's electricity reform.

“Out of partisan conviction and loyalty to Mexico, the PRI's vote in the Chamber of Deputies will be against the electricity reform initiative presented by the Federal Executive,” he emphasized.

Moreno Cárdenas highlighted that the decision came after all legislators studied the idea for seven months, where they followed up energy companies around the world, attended the months of Open Parliament discussion and meetings with experts.

“If the government cannot deal with the issue of gasoline, it is not credible that it has a plan to generate electricity for the whole country and that it does not rise in price,” said the PRI.

Together with the leaders of the National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés, and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Jesús Zambrano, they proposed an alternative reform, which, they said, will be formalized once the project promoted by López Obrador is voted on and discarded.

The warning puts the president's party, the Morena National Regeneration Movement (Morena), and its allies in the Chamber of Deputies in trouble, since they do not have the qualified majority (334 votes) required to implement the reform of articles 25, 27 and 28 of the Constitution and thus approve the electricity reform.

And so far, Morena has 202 votes from the members of her bank plus 45 from the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) and 33 from the Labor Party (PT), so there are 277 votes, so she would have 57 votes left to reach the 334 votes she needs for the approval of the reform.

For this he would have to convince 57 opposition deputies, but according to the party leaders, they have assured that none of their legislators will support the presidential initiative.

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