The National Action Party (PAN) demanded that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) stop pressuring the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) to approve the Electricity Industry Law (LIE), calling on the members of the country's highest court to “not legalize in the Court a which cannot be achieved in Congress”.
In a statement, the president of the albiazul party, Marko Cortés, urged the ministers who came to the Supreme Court on the president's proposal “to think first of the country, the Constitution and the dire economic and social consequences that declaring the Electricity Industry Law would have constitutional.”
In the text, Marco Cortés stressed that Minister Loretta Ortiz's proposal is prejudiced by origin “because when the minister was now a deputy, she called traitors to the country those who approved the energy reform that today is being reversed without technical arguments, simply because of the political whim of President López Obrador. Acción Nacional respectfully asks him to excuse, reconsider and correct his position for the benefit of the country,” he emphasized in the text.
The national PAN leader said that the single attempt to counter-electricity reform puts billions of dollars in investments from the United States, Canada, Spain and many other countries at risk, just when what is most urgent is capital that generates well-paid jobs.
Cortés Mendoza insisted that López Obrador's electric counter-reform has no feet or head.
“It is the umpteenth example of a government of occurrence and whims, where the obsession is to concentrate power in the hands of the president, who likewise wants to control the elections to decide who competes and who wins than to control electricity to say who to sell to and who does not.”
“The president's counter-reform is not a shot in the government's foot, it's a shot in the heart of Mexico,” the PAN leader conclusively concluded.
It should be recalled that the Electricity Industry Law will be voted on Thursday in the plenary session of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, after it was postponed last Tuesday.
The High Court will analyze Minister Loretta Ortiz's bill proposing to dismiss the three challenges filed by the state of Colima, the Federal Commission for Economic Competition (Cofece) and opposition legislators against legal reforms that seek to change the order of electricity dispatch by giving priority to Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) but does not define a minimum percentage in its participation in power generation, unlike the Energy Reform currently being discussed in the Chamber of Deputies.
Minister Javier Laynez Potisek spoke out for the unconstitutionality of the reforms approved in March 2021, while most of the members of the room have stated that they depart from some central aspects of Loretta Ortiz's project, who in his presentation stated that the Mexican State must ensure that the Mexican State must ensure economic development and strengthening electrical sovereignty and that no advantages should be given to foreign companies over interest.
In her bill, the minister and former federal deputy Morena proposes that the High Court declare the validity of the reforms, considering that they do not violate free competition and competition or cause damage to the environment.
In order for the amendments to the Electricity Industry Act to be maintained, only three ministers are required to adhere to Loretta Ortiz's bill, whereas for a determination of unconstitutionality to be won, at least eight votes are required.
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