Environment and Natural Resources Commission of the Chamber of Deputies endorses AMLO’s electrical reform

The Environment and Natural Resources Commission from Chamber of Deputies issued its favorable opinion to the initiative of rconstitutional reform in electrical matters sent by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to modify three constitutional articles, so that the commissions that determine these changes have no more obstacles to discuss the opinion that they also approved without changes this Monday.

In accordance with the agreement of these commissions, since it had a large content on environmental matters and given that its changes would significantly affect this sector, it was determined that the Environment and Natural Resources Commission will give its opinion regarding this initiative before starting its discussion, scheduled for next Monday, April 11 in committees, to go to the Plenary and be voted on in later days.

Within the Environmental Commission, 17 deputies from Morena, from the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Party (PVEM) voted in favor of approving this initiative, while another 14 from the opposition National Action (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI) and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) voted against.

At the same time, it was proposed to the ruling commissions, those of Constitutional Points and Energy, to add a transitory article in order to give certainty to the energy transition in relation to the promotion of sources of electric power and its repercussions on the environment and the proposal of the PRI member Carolina Viggiano was admitted, to add to the fourth article of the Constitution the supply of electrical energy as a human right for Mexicans, although it was not included in the reform opinion that is already in the hands of the commissions involved.

In this way, the 65th Legislature of the Lower House moved towards the vote of the electrical reformafter the national leadership of the PRI, a party whose vote is decisive for the approval or rejection of this reform, announced at a press conference that it will vote against it.

karol.garcia@eleconomista.mx

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