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Weekly Report - 05 September 2013 (WR-13-35)

MEXICO: Peña Nieto’s prospects hinge on next four months

“We have 120 days left so that 2013 can be remembered as a year of great transformation in which Mexico dared to take off,” President Enrique Peña Nieto said in his state-of-the-nation address (Informe) on 2 September. The use of the aviation metaphor was apposite – and not just for getting Mexico’s future development off the ground. Peña Nieto’s presidency will not take off unless he can persuade congress, and the general public, to rally behind three crucial reforms – energy, fiscal and financial – by the end of 2013. It was also unintentionally ironic: many flights were unable to take off from Mexico City’s international airport in late August as restive teachers poured into the capital in their thousands to try and block the implementation of the government’s education reform. Peña Nieto’s uncertain handling of these protests will have encouraged those preparing to confront him in the weeks ahead, especially over energy reform.

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