++ Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont said that closing down the Luz y Fuerza del Centro power utility decreed by the government was a perfectly legal measure. The Federal Electricity Commission guaranteed complete electric energy supply both in the Valley of Mexico and in five states where the Luz y Fuerza del Centro company provided electricity service.
++ Former head of the Mexican Electricians Union, the SME, Martín Esparza Flores, went to the Chamber of Deputies to seek support from political parties so as to file a constitutional controversy suit to annul the presidential decree liquidating Luz y Fuerza del Centro. Esparza Flores said the decree is unconstitutional and violates human rights… He denied that the union would sabotage electrical supply.
++ And, PAN senator Santiago Creel stood by President Calderón’s move to liquidate Luz y Fuerza saying he backed the decree to close down the power utility and that there should be further similar actions to close down other corrupt and inefficient unions.
++ But the PRD called for the government to backtrack on the decision to close down Luz y Fuerza… The PRD said it wanted thousands of jobs to be saved.
++ The National Union of Workers said this is the “final call” for the workers movement in Mexico to join together overcoming their differences because if they fail to unite, the government can order the shutting down of any other union.
++ And in Chiapas, Michoacán and Querétaro union and peasant organizations staged marches to protest over what they described as an onslaught on the part of the government against power utility Luz y Fuerza del Centro… They did not rule out calling a national strike to protest over the government’s decree closing down Luz y Fuerza del Centro.
++ The PRD Chamber of Deputies caucus presented its economic proposal for the 2010 fiscal year… Under the proposal the two-percent consumption tax put forth by the government is eliminated.
++ The Mexican Stock Exchange rose 1.45 percent, setting a new high level this year.
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