Weekly Report - 28 October 2003
MEXICO: PRI unveils energy reform policy
Presentational ploy aims at stealing thunder both from President Fox and from the hardliners within the party.
The leadership of the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) has scored a presentational coup over the government by announcing its new policy regarding reform of the electricity sector. This was as much directed towards the general public as to the PRI's own membership; in this arena the aim was to steal a march on the hardline legislators led by senator Manuel Bartlett [WR-03-39].
The components of the policy package were hardly startling. Its main elements:
The leadership of the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) has scored a presentational coup over the government by announcing its new policy regarding reform of the electricity sector. This was as much directed towards the general public as to the PRI's own membership; in this arena the aim was to steal a march on the hardline legislators led by senator Manuel Bartlett [WR-03-39].
The components of the policy package were hardly startling. Its main elements:
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