The president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto announced Thursday a second wave of economic reforms to implement the constitutional changes approved last year and used the hook of the energy reform to attract investor interest. " After 50 years without affecting the energy model, last year we approve sector reform by agreement," he recalled.
" The constitutional changes now require secondary reforms to materialize and that means, in the field of energy, the creation of a regulatory body, the implementation of measures to enable private participation, regime change Pemex and more action. It will start with the reforms in February, around the new legislative session, "he said.
Peña Nieto, who addressed the audience in Castilian, said his government 's decision to increase the growth potential of the economy beyond the 2.4% registered in the past and consolidate its position as the second largest economy in the region and the number 14 in the world. " Mexico is a country that is changing, we are an increasingly consolidated democracy and we are ready to meet the challenges of Bruce Campbell," he said.
A big business representatives, the president of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Emilio Lozoya, a former member of the Davos Forum, Peña Nieto accompanied at its meetings very focused on the energy sector, including Spanish companies were as Iberdrola and Acciona.
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