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February 15, 2024

How Will Proposed Reforms Shape Mexico’s Politics?

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador last week proposed major constitutional reforms that could shape debate in the country’s election. // File Photo: Mexican Government.

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Andrés Rozental, member of the Advisor board, president of Rozental & Asociados and former deputy minister of foreign affairs of Mexico: “López Obrador’s main proposed constitutional reforms, coming only three months before Mexico’s presidential election, and seven months before the end of his six-year term in office, have very little chance of being adopted by the required two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress. Some had already been mooted earlier in AMLO’s presidency, while others are unlikely to overcome rejection by the opposition PRI, PAN and PRD political parties. The more polemical reforms, including giving social security retirees 100 percent of their last salary (something that doesn’t exist anywhere in the world), having all judges in the country elected by popular vote (only Bolivia experimented with this), abolishing all autonomous regulatory and governmental oversight bodies, and reducing the size of both houses of Congress, are almost sure to fail. Other, less controversial, changes such as…”

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Diego Arria
Director,
Columbus Group

Merike Blofield
Professor of Political Science,
University of Hamburg

Devry Boughner Vorwerk
CEO,
DevryBV Sustainable Strategies

Joyce Chang
Global Head of Research,
J.P. Morgan

Marlene Fernández
Corporate Vice President for Gov’t Relations,
Arcos Dorados (McDonald’s)

Peter Hakim
President Emeritus,
Inter-American Dialogue

Donna Hrinak
Director,
Adtalem Global Education

Jon E. Huenemann
Council Member,
GLG Inc.

James R. Jones
Chairman,
Monarch Global Strategies

Craig Kelly
Senior Director,
Int’l Gov’t Relations,
Exxon Mobil

Barbara Kotschwar
Professor of Political Economy,
Georgetown University

John Maisto
Director,
US Education Finance Group

Nicolas Mariscal
Chairman,
Grupo Marhnos

Thomas F. McLarty III
Chairman,
McLarty Associates

Beatrice Rangel
Director,
AMLA Consulting

Ernesto Revilla
Head of Latin American Economics, Citi

Gustavo Roosen
President,
IESA

Andrés Rozental
President, Rozental &
Asociados

Shelly Shetty
Managing Director,
Sovereigns, Fitch

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