Mexico’s Sheinbaum Promises Energy Continuity Amid Sector Challenges 

With only weeks remaining until Mexico’s June 2 presidential election, members of the energy industry are weighing in on what the sector might look like during an administration led by Claudia Sheinbaum of the Morena coalition, who has a commanding lead in national polls.   

On the campaign trail, Sheinbaum has explained that she would continue with the energy policies of the current administration and that her government would represent the second phase of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s so-called “fourth transformation” of Mexico. 

Sheinbaum has pledged to continue to support state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and state power company Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), and has assured they would remain the country’s dominant energy...