Mexico.- The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) assured that the electrical reform promoted by the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will return to the head of the Federal Executive Branch the regulatory bodies of the energy sector.
During his participation in the open parliament convened by the Congress of the Union on the constitutional electrical amendment initiative, the general attorney of the Federal Electricity Commission, Raúl Jiménez Vázquez, made it clear that President López Obrador’s electrical reform does not eliminate the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) nor to the National Hydrocarbons omission (CNH) or to the planner and operator of the national electrical system National Center for Energy Control (Cenace).
Contrary to this, the official said, “it seeks to reconfigure functions and reassign them at the head of the energy sector, the Energy Secretariat (Sener) and at the Federal Electricity Commission.”
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In forum 19 of the open parliament, Jiménez Vázquez pointed out that, from the point of view of the Mexican State company, it is not contemplated that the regulatory bodies passing to the power of the Federal Executive implies a undermines the constitutionality or democracy of the country.
“We do not believe in CFE that this implies a decrease, an erosion of the constitutional and democratic State of law. These bodies arise in the legal and political ideological context of the neoliberal model. It was thought that in this way the markets could function more adequately, making a division of functions”, he pointed out. Notwithstanding this, he emphasized that their return to the Presidency of the Republic “is nothing more than the claim of powers of the Federal Executive.”
For his part, Gustavo Morton Barrera, businessman director of Soltrac and member of the organization Entrepreneurs for the 4Taccused that none of the business leaders who have attended the open parliament of the Legislative Branch represents the approximately 5 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that operate in the Mexican Republic, which pay more to use the electricity service, compared to large companies.
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“Nobody looks for SMEs. There are 5 million SMEs that pay the highest rate. I pay 5.4 pesos per kilowatt, 77 thousand qualified users pay 1.5. I can not compete. SMEs cannot compete”, she explained.
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