Peña continues to defend reform

Thursday, 12 December 2013 00:10 
BY MAURILIO SOTO
The News


MEXICO CITY – As hundreds continue to protest the pending energy reform, President Enrique Peña Nieto again defended his administration’s policies on Wednesday.

While heading the awards ceremony for the 2013 National Science and Art Prize Peña Nieto said that Mexico is in the middle of a transformation, and that the “number, depth and relevance of the approved reforms is encouraging,” which reflects, “the modernizing spirit that is alive today in the country.”

He added that the reforms alone will not be enough to reach “total transformation of Mexico,” rather it will require “an efficient and adequate orchestration” of the reforms by the government.

He talked about the energy reform and the three months of work that has already been done, saying that expert knowledge was heard and taken into account.

“They analyzed the global energy reality and exchanged arguments and reasonings,” he said, adding, “The Senate has done a lot of work and now it is the Chamber of Deputies and the state congresses to revise the scope of this transcendental reform that has been proposed.”

Peña Nieto pointed out that the past several days have been full of intense legislative work in Congress on electoral-political and energy reform.

Peña Nieto added that the National Science and Art Prize represents “an invitation for Mexicans to keep creating and researching freely,” and that, “Mexican artists and scientists are essential for finding solutions behind the main problems and challenges of our country.”

He also said that the artists and scientists will always find his administration’s “doors open and ears listening to their proposals and approaches.”

He went on to say that his administration would like to establish a new relation with intellectuals, creators and scientists, and that, “A positive relation, that works for Mexico, based on dialogue, understanding and above all, with absolute respect.”

Peña Nieto followed up the statement stating the need for “greater communicating vessels” between the creative community and government.