MC again pointed to “PRIMOR” in the AMLO Electricity Reform, they noted coincidences

On Thursday, March 31, it transpired that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), in the Chamber of Deputies, presented its alternatives in the Electric Reform of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), in this sense it could be interpreted as the changes that the tricolor bench requires to vote in favor of the initiative.

Consequently, the parliamentary bench of the Citizen Movement (MC) criticized the amendments presented by the PRI and pointed out, once again, the alleged parliamentary coordination between the tricolor with Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), which is why they re-coined the nickname PRIMOR to refer to the alterations that were made public.

The orange bench condemned that they propose to centralize control of the electricity system in the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and that it lead the energy transition, “without putting locks on the purchase of fuel oil and coal”; It also condemned that a percentage of electricity generation is not established for the private sector.

In this light, they pointed out that the initiatives presented by both the president and the PRI address the same political agenda: “they summarize what the Orange Bank has denounced, the existence of PRIMOR in the Chamber of Deputies”.

Against this background, this parliamentary faction recalled that it has presented 14 initiatives that “are committed to the future and that contemplate the transition to clean and cheap energy”, where four of them highlighted:

1.- The carbon emissions tax.

2.- Build hydrothermal carbonization plants.

3.- Require the CFE to implement a reduction in the purchase of fuel oil.

4.- Develop local proposals to generate renewable energy.

It should be remembered that the possibility of changes, however minimal they may seem, was already coming. Even Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, former head of government of the Federal District, now Mexico City, said that the amendments to this initiative of the federal executive, to be approved, would undergo modifications.

The latter was even confirmed by Manuel Rodríguez, president of the Energy Commission in San Lázaro, who, after setting up the table that will dictate the initiative of the Mexican president, declared, on Monday, 28, that as long as the “spirit” of the Reformation is not lost, it will be subject to modifications.

According to his statements, the standard-bearer of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) said that he hopes to have the ruling made between 13 and 16 April, and then proceed with the vote in the united committees and, finally, take it to the plenary so that all parliamentary factions set their positions and vote accordingly.

The spirit he refers to is at the heart of the initiative: that the CFE is the one who has the 54% stake in the sector (generation, transmission, distribution and marketing) and that lithium belongs to the Mexican State. In this regard, numerous modifications to specific terminologies could be proposed in relation to contracts that remain in force. This is when thinking about the concessions that the Mexican government has established with its trading partners in previous six-year periods.

In exchange, the Morenista reaffirmed his commitment to ensure that 46% of the industry remains in the hands of the private sector and that the sector grows to 6% annually. It should be remembered that the market for the entire electricity sector in Mexico is 6.3 billion pesos, which means that 2.9 billion pesos of this would belong to private companies, which will increase steadily.

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