Georgina Saldierna
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, March 27, 2022, p. 3
Even though President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has asked that the constitutional reform in electrical matters be approved without changes, Morena in the Chamber of Deputies sees it as extremely complicated that there are no modifications.
The deputy coordinator of the icing party in San Lázaro, Aleida Alavez, stressed that a constitutional reform has never gone as it came in, specifying, however, that perhaps the president is referring to the core part of the restructuring of the electricity sector.
There we can not move anything
because it would be to transgress the project of an adaptation around the mechanisms that the State has to regulate, he stressed.
Alavez pointed out that currently, the market regulates the electricity sector. With the initiative, it is the State that enters into this function to seek a more equitable development, without excluding private initiative, but neither letting it set the rules.
Regarding the project that exists in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation to validate the electrical reform of 2021, the deputy coordinator of Morena said that even if it is approved, the constitutional change initiative is necessary, because during Enrique Peña Nieto’s six-year term it was removed to the State the faculty of regulation regarding the generation of electrical energy and this has given guidelines for the sector to be regulated by the rules of the market, not those of the State.
Alavez also described as irresponsible to expect that the constitutional proposal be approved after the elections next June, as the PRI has proposed.
He explained that his party is acting in accordance with the times that were considered from the beginning in the Political Coordination Board of the Chamber of Deputies. The open parliament is over, the commissions are going to be installed and there is no reason to postpone the issue any longer, he said.
The legislator estimated that those who do not want the reform will find any excuse not to enter the vote, that if an eclipse is going to happen and they have to wait, or the change in summer time.
For the rest, he stressed that his party must dialogue with all the parties to achieve the number of votes necessary to approve the Executive’s initiative.
Among the modifications that this would have, is to add in article 4 of the Constitution the enunciation of the right to electric power as part of the guarantee of a dignified life.
The PRD confirmed that it will not approve the initiative if what the experts on the subject raised in the framework of the open parliament is not modified, and voting in this sense is not a betrayal of the country.
