Mexico’s supreme court (SCJN) ruled on 30 October that it was unconstitutional for a referendum to be held on the country’s seminal energy reform which opens the way for private investment in the oil industry and ends the 76-year monopoly of the state oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). The ruling is a big boost for the government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto, which pushed the reform through the federal congress last year, and a big blow to Mexico’s Left, which had presented two separate initiatives, gathering millions of signatures in support of a referendum on the matter.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1074 words.
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