Weekly Report - 25 October 2012 (WR-12-42)

It is coveted by both President Felipe Calderón and his successor Enrique Peña Nieto but the prospects of a labour reform making it through congress by 1 December, when the latter will don the presidential sash, are looking slim. The senate this week rebuffed efforts by Peña Nieto’s Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) to approve a labour reform lite which would have entailed no changes for the party’s trade union allies. Mexico’s two most powerful longstanding trade union leaders were re-elected at the weekend in precisely the sort of undemocratic elections the original reform bill proposed by Calderón’s Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), and diluted by the PRI-led majority in the lower chamber, seeks to outlaw. The vote highlighted the difficulties Peña Nieto could face from entrenched interests in the PRI with advancing his reform agenda when he takes office.

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