Split in Mexico Opposition Opens Door for AMLO’s Power Bill Passage
- The bill would undo electricity opening to private companies
- PRI party may offer up enough votes for the proposal to pass
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Mexico’s opposition parties are at odds over how to deal with the government’s deeply nationalistic bill to return control of the electricity sector to the state, opening an opportunity for the controversial legislation to pass.
Fault lines appeared within the opposition bloc soon after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador presented the bill last week, triggering a clash over whether to debate the proposal, as some lawmakers have chosen to do, or reject it outright, as others have done.