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Mexico’s recent widespread blackouts serve as a warning in failed policies for the current and incoming governments, but solutions are available, experts said Thursday. 

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process.

Mexico’s presidential frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling Morena party would continue the nation’s buildout of natural gas-fired power if she were to win the June 2 election.

Opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez promises to shake up Mexico’s energy sector if she wins the elections in June.

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. 

Texans on Tuesday cast ballots on a slate of constitutional amendments, with Proposition 7, which supplies state funds to add natural gas-fired power plants, resoundingly approved. 

Texans as early as Monday were going to be able to begin voting on a slate of amendments, including one that would fund natural gas-fired generation facilities to bolster the stressed electric grid. 

“The Mexican Congress now has a more balanced representation, which is an excellent opportunity for negotiation and to have a moderated agenda,” Casiopea Ramírez Melgar, partner at Fresh Energy Consulting and seasoned expert in the Mexican energy sector, told NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index. “This scenario may provide a more optimistic panorama, especially in terms of avoiding a constitutional change.”

Calls were escalating Thursday from lawmakers and major business groups, including the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), for President Trump to step down from office before his term ends on Jan. 20.

The June midterm elections in Mexico, set to be the country’s largest single-day election in its history, could either stall or advance President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s state-centric energy sector platform.