COLUMN: ‘Open Parliament,’ Closed Doors in Mexico Energy Sector

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. The opinions and positions expressed by Prud’homme do not necessarily reflect the views of NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index.

The events of this month have offered a window into the methods, intentions and contradictions of the energy policy of Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. 

In the domestic political arena, an “open parliament” conducted in Congress has brought several experts to explain why they oppose the government initiative that changes the constitution to strengthen state power utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE). 

These...