President Claudia Sheinbaum and the director of the Fitch Ratings credit agency, Shelly Shetty, met this Friday to analyze the economic and financial situation in Mexico.
“We met at the National Palace with Shelly Shetty, executive director at Fitch Ratings, and her team, to address the good performance of our economy, healthy finances and Mexico’s plans,” the Mexican president said in an online publication. social X illustrated with photos of the meeting held.
This a week after Sheinbaum asked the rating agency Moody’s to provide “evidence” to justify its new negative outlook for Mexico with the argument that there is a weakening of the “institutional framework” in the midst of controversial government reforms.
“I don’t know why there is this supposedly institutional weakening, I would have to give more arguments or evidence for it, many times these rating agencies are oriented to evaluate based on an economic model,” said the president in her morning conference last Friday.
The president questioned the methodology of Moody’s, which maintained its credit rating for Mexico at Baa2, but changed the outlook from stable to negative due to its “vision of a weakening of the institutional and policy-making framework that could undermine fiscal and economic results.” .
Fitch was also critical, after Sheinbaum’s electoral victory, of the judicial reform enacted on September 15 so that, starting in 2025, there will be popular elections for judges, magistrates and the Supreme Court.
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“The proposed judicial reforms in Mexico could negatively affect the investment appetite and business environment of non-financial companies if their implementation impedes the autonomy and quality of the judicial system,” Fitch Ratings noted in late June.
With information from EFE
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