Mexican Front-Runner Wants Public’s View on Oil Law, Ally Says

Mexico’s leftist front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador intends to seek a public consultation on the nation’s landmark energy reform, raising the possibility that the opening of the oil industry could be overturned, according to his Veracruz gubernatorial candidate.

To get there, Lopez Obrador must first win election July 1 and then push through an amendment to the constitution to allow public consultations on matters concerning government revenue, Cuitlahuac Garcia, said in a telephone interview. The outcome of the consultations would then dictate the government’s next steps.