BY MAURILIO SOTO
The News
MEXICO CITY – Twelve months after his inauguration, President Enrique Peña Nieto said that his first year in office has been dedicated to promoting transformational reforms.
Peña Nieto’s comments were made during the National Sports Award ceremony, where he also thanked Mexico’s athletes for showing the world that Mexicans are capable of successfully competing on the international stage.
According to Peña Nieto, the highest priority of his administration is to reach agreements with Mexico’s opposition parties to promote the structural reforms the country needs to advance and develop.
“The reforms that have been approved and that I hope will be approved soon are the base for allowing Mexico to grow at a more rapid, sustained and sustainable rhythm in the coming years and decades,” he said, going on to mention the benefits that he said Mexico would see as a result of modifications to the country’s laws on education, telecommunications, finance and transparency.
The education reform, he said, will elevate teaching standards in public schools, while the reforms addressing economic competition and the telecommunications sector will allow Mexicans to have access to higher quality services at lower prices.
Peña Nieto said that the tax reform will strengthen the government’s ability to raise revenue, while the transparency reform will promote government accountability and the financial reform will make it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to access credit at lower interest rates.
He went on to say that he expects the political-electoral and energy reforms currently being discussed in Congress to be approved soon.
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