Mexico’s 2018 elections could have far-reaching implications for the country’s energy reform, but any shift in policy would likely come from a slowdown in implementation rather than an outright reversal. That conclusion was the collective wisdom of panelists speaking at the Mexican Energy Series conference hosted by Energy Dialogues last week in Mexico City. The socialist-leaning presidential candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, now leads in the national polls and has raised alarms among international investors with a stake in Mexico. But in the country’s national legislature, elections are currently looking more highly contested. “The most likely outcome in Congress is that there won’t be a clear majority,” said Alejandro Chanona Robles, director of international affairs and planning at Mexico’s Comision Reguladora de Energia. A congressional majority would be a minimum requirement to affect a legal change in Mexico?s energy reform, which was enshrined in the nation’s constitution upon its […]