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Mexico will have an Energy Reform this year: Luis Videgaray
The Finance Minister Luis Videgaray before a high - level round table of the World Economic Forum, said that to tackle the reform will be necessary to "change the legal framework" Mexican and regretted that for years the issue of energy reform in Mexico viewed from a view only "ideological". Elsexenio.com Davos. - The Mexican Secretary of Finance, Luis Videgaray, confirmed today at the Davos Forum 43 the Mexican government's intention to undertake a thorough energy reform this year. Before a high - level round table of the World Economic Forum, said Videgaray that energy reform will take place in 2013 and recalled that it was agreed by the political forces in Mexico pact signed last December. "It will not be easy to make but the need is there, the conditions are there and the opportunity is there", said Videgaray, who heads the Mexican official delegation participating in the forum which was also attended by the director general of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya Austin. Videgaray explained to the select audience that to undertake the necessary reforms will "change the legal framework" Mexican and regretted that for years the issue of energy reform in Mexico viewed from a perspective only "ideological". "President Peña Nieto, when he was running for president, and said we need to be more practical, more modern in our approach, not as ideological," said the official. "We have tremendous energy assets to benefit the Mexican people," said Videgaray in the panel entitled "Emerging at a crossroads". |
