The parliamentary coordinator of the Morena deputies in San Lázaro, Ignacio Mier, announced that at least six of the 12 proposals presented by the Va por México alliance (PAN, PRI, PRD) on electricity could be incorporated into the draft opinion of the reform initiative sent by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“Of these 12 proposals I have had the opportunity, together with the Parliamentary Group and the coalition, to review at least 6 of them, and of these 6 we fully agree with what they have presented, and we are going to make them ours on Thursday, as I pointed out , Morena will make public which ones she joins so that they go as a single proposal, in those in which we agree”, said the federal deputy.
Among the concordances with the initiative proposed by the opposition, he said, are the constitutional right to electricitylower tariffs or that its use, supply and affordable prices are a precondition for citizens to be able to enjoy the right to water, security, food and health.
With respect to water for agricultural usehe indicated, we agree that an industrial tariff is not applied to their treatment and that prices are lowered, in order to also be able to guarantee the right to food for all.
Regarding security, said Mier Velazco, Brunette agree that the public lighting tariffs be considered public service and not commercial, as it is currently, and thus lower, since electricity is essential to guarantee the safety of citizens.
There are municipalities such as Acapulco that owes 750 million pesos for public lighting and is one of the municipalities with the highest crime rates, which is why it is necessary to incorporate public service criteria for electricity and the rates for public lighting, which I must In other words, it is the second highest rate of all the rates that the Federal Electricity Commission had,” he asserted.
He added that they also sympathize with the idea that the tariffs of the operating water systems for domestic use should no longer be applied with commercial criteria and their price should be reduced, otherwise the human right to water would be put at risk.
He pointed out that the proposals that are going to be incorporated into the opinion, will enter some in the transitory articles and others in the fourth article of the Magna Carta.
“We act in good faith, protecting the public interest, that is the difference. There will be a good participation of the electricity market on the part of the private initiative and we are going to favor politics”, he commented.
Likewise, he expressed that “we are going to continue dialoguing, we think that there is time, that the Electrical Reform is well worth a Holy Week”, he explained.
In this context, Mier Velazco maintained that there is no reason to postpone the ruling, discussion and vote on the initiative in the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputiessince the opposition has already presented its proposals.
Meanwhile, he affirmed that, regardless of the ruling issued by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) regarding the constitutionality or not of the reforms to the Electricity Industry Lawhis bench will not desist from carrying out the electrical reformpromoted by the Federal Executive.
“In the event that the Court rules in favor of the legality of the Electricity Industry Law, Morena will not give up the attempt to approve the electricity reform. It would be a significant advance, it contains 80 percent of what the constitutional reform brings, but what abounds does not hurt, “said the Morenista deputy.
Electric power must be managed with public service criteria: it must be sufficient, at affordable prices and with clean energy. That is the essence of #Electric Reform.
– Ignacio Mier Velazco (@NachoMierV)
April 4, 2022
However, the coordinator of the deputies of the PRDLuis Espinosa Cházaro, said that the BREAD, PRI and PRD They do not see the conditions to approve an opinion before April 15 and considered the term that Morena intends to vote on the document to be insufficient.
“If they intend to analyze them, as I have heard that it is proposed, we need time, I do not quite understand why the insistence on voting on it in a week of holiday, is not even on the legislative calendar, modifications will have to be made so that the next one could be voted on week, we must do politics, we must confront the two proposals that exist, the one from the ruling party and the one from Va por México… I do not see the conditions to issue an opinion that favors Mexico between now and 15”, said the PRD deputy.
The PRD also expressed that it is hasty, since only some modifications were proposed by the ‘Va por México’ coalition, which, he said, if they intend to analyze how they propose, time is needed.
“We are in the logic that there is enough time, not on non-working days, not on steam, to be able to discuss these proposals,” he commented.
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