LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 25 November 2019

*Mexico’s federal chamber of deputies has given final approval to the 2020 draft national budget for M$6.1trn (US$314.6bn). Deputies were forced to temporarily relocate to the Expo Santa Fe convention centre to vote on the budget since they did not reach an agreement with the groups of farmers who have been blocking the entrance to the San Lázaro legislative palace since 11 November demanding higher budget allocations for the agricultural sector. A statement from the chamber of deputies remarked that in the newly-approved budget “spending priorities are directed towards social programmes, in order to pay attention to the economic, social and regional inequalities that persist in the country”. Deputies from Mexico’s main right-wing opposition Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) did not participate in the approval of the budget. In a statement the PAN said that “the budget approved by the [leftist ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional] Morena and its allies in the dark and with its back turned to the Mexican people does not solve the needs of the country”.

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