The president of Mexico has declared this Tuesday that the Government of Pedro Sánchez , of the PSOE in coalition with Podemos, “seems to be employees” of the large electricity companies. Andrés Manuel López Obrador has launched this accusation warning that if the constitutional reform of the electricity sector that they are preparing does not go ahead in Mexico, “what is happening now in Spain would happen.”
The Mexican president has expressed himself this way in his daily press conference where he has warned that the electricity companies “end up taking over the entire electricity market .” López Obrador has also said that if the constitutional reform he advocates is not approved, “what is happening now in Spain will happen, that the electricity rates for the user are through the roof.”
In this sense, he alluded to the signing of the socialist Antonio Miguel Carmona , recently appointed vice president of Iberdrola Spain. “Just as here Iberdrola hired the Secretary of Energy (Georgina Kessel) and the former president (Felipe) Calderón, there they did it with a PSOE leader, a politician, just to show their arrogance and say ‘we command'”, has indicated. In his opinion, those who oppose the reform in Mexico is because they enjoy privileges in the current system.
Regarding his reform, he remarked that the initiative does not seek to expropriate, since 46 percent of the electricity market would be in the hands of private companies, which he has warned that, if they seek to “steal, they should go elsewhere. » , According to the newspaper ‘La Jornada’. On the other hand, he has pointed out that in Mexico foreign companies are no longer allowed to see the country as a “land of conquest.”
It is not the first time that López Obrador alludes to Spain while defending his constitutional reform of the electricity sector, which seeks to promote the role of the state Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) in the industry to stop the increase in the price of electricity. He has also criticized Iberdrola’s role in the Mexican energy market on previous occasions.
