By: Editorial La Jornada
The parliamentary faction of the National Action Party (PAN) in the Senate yesterday presented a reform initiative Articles 27 and 28 of the Constitution and the law regulating the first of those paragraphs, to the effect that individuals may engage in basic petrochemicals, storage and distribution of oil products, until now restricted by law to the State.
This new attempt revive privatization in general, the meaning and the arguments that sought to advance the holder of federal executive, Felipe Calderón, in April 2008, then as now, a diagnosis was made disastrous state of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), stressed the need to increase production and efficiency of the parastatal, we attempted to blackmail the population with the supposed "need" to cut spending social programs to strengthen Pemex and held, then the viable solution was the transfer to private hands of some higher value-added segments of the domestic industry of oil.
must not be overlooked that the practices that are intended to formalize the proposal and PAN are given largely by way of the facts, and that this sector the authorities have used various subterfuges: from the deliberate reduction in Pemex's petrochemical capacity for the benefit of private operators to open to private initiative, even without reform-through of the tasks of storage, transport, distribution and pipeline control Pemex, from secondary laws and regulations. The same could be said for mining and exploration activities, which, according to the promoters of the initiative will remain under sole custody of the state, but private operators whose opening is covered under the recently awarded "comprehensive service" instruments which, according to several experts, oil revenues in addition condition.
The available evidence realize, in short, a domestic oil industry has been operating in a sustained illegal, but this does not justify lawmakers seek grant-white now, by reforming annotated-legal cover for such practices: rather, they must be corrected and punished according to law, and this requires laws that prevail in the spirit of defending the national wealth and the common interest.
It must remember, moreover, that since 2008 the Mexican company clearly stated its refusal to privatize oil, showed a large capacity for mobilization to prevent the delivery of Pemex to private and rejected arguments sufficiently the criteria and whereby the group in power is now returning to the charge in his zeal privatization.
A substantial difference between the current context and that then is that the Presidency of the Republic, and, by extension, the party in power today accused a far greater political weakness in 2008 and its ability to impose the privatization plan are therefore much more focused.
In what may be the only way I could succeed the initiative is referred to as a result of a negotiation "necessarily opaque and back to society, among members of the binomial party which controls Congress, such a scenario pose a devastating blow to the already questionable credibility of the Legislature and the current regime runs the risk of reviving the division privatizing social commitment led her in 2008, with the added difficulty that government and institutional deterioration is more pronounced today than three years ago, and that this multiplies the risk of an undesirable far-reaching national discord.
Source: La Jornada
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