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.

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The opinions and positions expressed by Prud’homme do not necessarily reflect the views of NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index.

In the midterm elections in June, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lost ground in the lower house of Congress. It appeared that modifying the constitution was now out of reach. Not only did he lose support among voters, but up until that point his energy policy to protect the interests of the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) and his attempts to change the Electricity Industry Law had been shot down by the nation’s...