This morning, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), informed that it will be next week when I present to the Congress of the Union the reform initiative electric sector of which I had given some details a few days ago.
During its traditional “morning”, The president indicated that it will be evaluated whether this initiative will include the issue of the exploitation of lithium in Mexico.
“About the lithium, the reform initiative for the electrical industry, and it is being analyzed whether this initiative includes lithium or is separatelyNothing else is what I can tell you, “he said.
The above, after the previous week AMLO ensure that this month he would send to Congress a reform initiative to strengthen the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).
“I am going to send the reform initiative To strengthen the CFE before the end of this month, work is already underway, we are making progress, ”he said during his morning conference.
This initiative will ensure that the price of light, that there is no blackouts So what cost less electricity to consumers and companies, so that, he insisted, requires strengthen CFE, since previous administrations, he said, were looking disappear them to free the market to foreign companies.
“Fortunately the alarm sounded and the privatization, if we weren’t like in Spain, in Spain the rates of the electric power because they are private and they go for it profitThey do not care about the general interest, the collective, national interest ”, he stated last Monday from the National Palace.
Finally, he highlighted the work of the company led by Manuel Bartlett in the restoration of electricity in the areas affected by the recent hurricanes.
On the other hand, López Obrador ruled out that there are acts of corruption within the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE). During the same press conference, he pointed out that with the arrival of his government the bad habits of the past, where contracts were given to “right and left”.
“I believe that the directors of the CRE are people would, honest, responsible. The members of the council could be changed, now they are all upright. I can be calm, I know that there is no corruption in the CRE, that there are no moches, “he said.
“Previously there was a problem there and in all these organizations, especially due to corruption, starting with the decision they made when the energy reform was carried out to deliver concessions Willy-nilly, import permits, for the installation of gas stations, for the introduction of fuels, a disorder. In most cases, these permits were not applied, they entered a kind of black market”, Denounced the Tabasco.
The foregoing arose after a national media published a series of Remarks against the CRE, where he was accused of asking “cooperations”To streamline procedures and grant permits to gas stations. In response, the agency assured that the information released by journalist Diana Gante is tendentious and lacks support.
In this sense, it clarified that the complaint referred to in the article has already been addressed and investigated in accordance with the procedure established by the Internal Control Body in time reports. Before the Lack of evidence and since it was an anonymous complaint, it was decided to dismiss the appeal.
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