Mexico Judge Suspends Controversial Power Law Indefinitely
- Magistrate grants definitive suspension to recently passed law
- President to seek constitutional energy reform if law blocked
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A Mexican judge suspended indefinitely President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s controversial electricity law, throwing it into a legal limbo that may lead the government seek a constitutional reform of the energy sector.
The “definitive” suspension of the law, which favors a state utility over private power companies, was granted Friday by Juan Pablo Gomez Fierro, a federal judge specializing in economic competition, according a copy of the decision seen by Bloomberg News.