Opponents launch alerts and defend the 4T
“Electricity is no longer seen as a commodity to be considered a strategic public service and therefore the LIE will apply to it and not commercial law,” explained Morenoist deputy Dolores Padierna on the platform.
Thus, private companies will be able to participate in oil, electricity, lithium, “but for example they will have to reach a maximum of 46% so that 54% of the electricity is produced, generated by the CFE,” he added.
However, the opposition explained the risks of these changes. Former business leader Gustavo de Hoyos, deputy of Movimiento Ciudadano, warned that the changes will discourage investment, will not allow the energy generation strategy of President Claudia Sheinbaum to be fulfilled, and will put the country in litigation within the framework of the Free Trade Agreement. of America and will prevent the benefits of nearshoring.
“The changes proposed in the constitutional reform would make private investment impossible for three fundamental reasons: first because the predominance of the CFE is imposed. Secondly, because it defines an electrical system oriented towards safety, instead of the efficiency that should regulate the sector, and thirdly, because it establishes the prohibition of reasonable profits in the value chain of the electrical sector,” he explained.
Mario Zamora Gastélum, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), added warnings: “the attempts to nationalize the energy sector have not had good results. Only between January and July 2024, the CFE had a loss of almost 75 billion pesos. Yes, Manuel Bartlett’s CFE. Which is a decline of 162 billion pesos compared to the previous year,” he said.
However, the debate also had its rough moments, when deputies Adriana Abreu Artiñano, from Morena, and María Josefina Gamboa Torales, from Acción Nacional (PAN), clashed.
The first listed the failures of the energy reform of the past six-year terms and how the business of companies was favored, in the delivery of clean energies, in which private initiative was privileged, before the CFE, combined cycles; self-generation, auctions-
It was the business of private parties, who, by fraud against the law, are posted on the CFE transmission network, “that has cost all of us Mexicans to carry out this self-generation that is a fraud against the law, to OXXO, to Kimberly. -Clark, maybe that’s why there’s so much interest here,” he accused.
But the PAN member Gamboa gave her a prompt response, remembering that Abreu, now president of the Energy Commission, not only approved the 2013 energy reform, but also defended it as a PRI legislator.
“Today in exchange for a bone, and of those here I also have the videos with the ticket they gave you in Campeche, deputy. “Just like that, memory even changes,” he said, recalling that Abreu was shown in several videos in 2023 while receiving money from the Campeche government, during an election and when the Morenoist Layda Sansores was already governor.
