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Mexico & Nafta - February 2010 (ISSN 1741-444X)

Congress reconvenes amid uncertainty

On 1 February congress reconvened for its second session since the mid-term elections in July 2009. The current short session (which ends before Easter) looks as though it will confirm President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa as a lameduck. The opposition-controlled congress has signalled that it will not approve many of Calderón's ambitious political reform suggestions. The consensus in congress, and among political commentators, is that the reforms, far from strengthening the legislature as Calderón claimed, will weaken it.

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