“For the private and public energy sector, these elections could define the rules of the game for the remainder of the administration,” Layla Vargas, general director at Muvoil Consulting and seasoned expert in the Mexican energy sector, told NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index. Mexico will hold local, legislative and state elections on June 6. 

Layla Vargas

“Currently, we are in a legislative impasse where one side is continuing with the current energy model approved in 2013, while on the other hand, the reform initiatives proposed by the current administration, which have clear objectives for a different energy policy, are also suspended,” Vargas said. “I think it would benefit all sectors to have a legislative body in place whose decisions aren’t determined by a majority...