The great challenge for President Claudia Sheinbaum is to generate confidence that there is certainty and security to invest in Mexico, according to the president of the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex), José Medina Mora Icaza.
“The president’s great challenge is to generate confidence among Mexican and American investors that there are conditions for them to invest in Mexico, that the law will protect them, that there is a strategy to improve security and there will be clean energy.” ”, declared the leader of the employers’ union.
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He stated that there are many investment projects that want to come to Mexico, that are already validated and have financing, but are stopped by legal uncertainty, insecurity and lack of energy and water.
He commented that the CEO Dialogue is a banner to have dialogue and communication between the government of Mexico and the private initiative of Mexico and the United States.
He highlighted that in the first 15 days of the new government this forum will be held with the president and the general directors of companies to generate an environment of trust so that investment arrives.
The business leader acknowledged that dialogue tables have been opened with the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, to see how the constitutional reforms will be implemented, especially the judicial one.
“Dialogue tables have been opened through the Ministry of Economy (SE) to see how the reforms will be implemented, although it is true that we cannot change what has already been approved in the Constitution, we can intervene in secondary laws and in implementation,” he declared.
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“And it is in this dialogue between the business sector and the Ministry of Economy where the possibility of dialogue and collaboration is opening up,” he said.
He noted that “it is the path we plan to follow and recognizing that the country has already changed the new reality of Morena and the qualified majority that they can change the Constitution as they decide.”
He said that for the first time in 40 years in Mexico, Morena, PVEM and PT approved a change in the Constitution that does not have the consensus and votes of the opposition.
“We saw that the qualified majority was applied to approve the constitutional reforms, without listening to the opposition, without listening to the experts and without listening to the workers, as was the case with the Judicial Branch of the Federation,” he explained.
