Javier Gonzalez Garza, coordinator of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) in the Chamber of Deputies, said that the PRD and the Broad Progressive Front (FAP) would present a unified energy reform plan to compete with the plans proposed by the National Action Party (PAN) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), according to a report in today’s El Financiero. 

Mr. Gonzalez Garza also said that the PRD and FAP were planning a national march on August 31, 2008, which will be led by leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, to protest the PRI and PAN energy reform plans. 

The PRI and PAN energy reform plans would, among other things, allow Pemex, the state-controlled oil monopoly, to enter into contracts with foreign investors to assist with the development of Mexican petroleum resources.