Xóchitl Gálvez, a leading candidate in Mexico’s 2024 presidential elections, is seeking to prioritize the use of natural gas to advance the country’s energy transition and promote more private investment to develop necessary transportation infrastructure, she said in comments in Mexico City.

Speaking at the at the Energy Associations Congress, Gálvez, who is the 2024 candidate for the Frente Amplio por México coalition party — which is a bloc of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) — said she feels the current government lacks vision in the natural gas industry, particularly in terms of flaring, fracking and infrastructure development.

“It’s very clear that natural gas...