José Medina Mora Icaza, the only candidate to preside over the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), stated that Mexico is a great country to invest in, despite the market risks that exist in all economies, including Europe.
“Sometimes we lose the perspective that Mexico is a great country to invest in, there are great opportunities and sometimes we stop just to see some natural difficulties,” he said at the end of the CCE meeting, an organization that he plans to lead from December 10, 2025 with three priorities to move the Mexican economy.
“With respect to legal certainty, what we observe is interesting how foreign companies that arrive (to Mexico) see what the conditions of that legal certainty are and are willing to invest.”
Foreign companies have a better evaluation of the opportunities versus the risks “that we have within ourselves,” said the former president of Coparmex.
“And a little when asking them (investors) if they don’t see risk in Mexico: They tell us, let’s see, risks are in Europe, which is on one side of the war,” says the businessman who last year headed a vice presidency created in the Business Coordinating Council.
The work route
“We are very happy with the support for the unity candidacy, which strengthens me to preside over the CCE and strengthens the institution itself,” he said.
The future president of the CCE indicated that he is working on a plan to reactivate investment in the Mexican economy, which this year will have zero progress in its gross domestic product.
There is an opportunity that by reactivating investment, Mexico’s economic growth will resume, the business leader considered.
“We will be working on these variables that have somehow stopped some projects, such as legal certainty, security and energy availability,” he said.
José Medina Mora Izaca pointed out that he will support the government of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo in the review of the T-MEC, an important agreement for the development and growth of the Mexican economy.
The common objectives of the government and the business sector are “to maintain the free trade agreement—because it has been fundamental in the development of the country—as well as to negotiate better conditions for the country,” he declared.
There is frequent and close communication with the Secretary of Economy (SE), Marcelo Ebrard, and his team, so “we will be working” hand in hand on the renegotiation of the T-MEC, recalled the only candidate for president of the CCE.
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In the review of the T-MEC “there are issues that the government has to resolve, but there are issues that the business sector in the United States has to resolve with our counterparts,” he recalled.
The third priority is to make the CCE the home of all micro, small, medium and large companies, as well as entrepreneurs, young people and women.
Everyone will have a space through the 12 organizations belonging to the Business Commerce Council, he concluded.
