MEXICO CITY — Mexican presidential front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would review dozens of concessionary contracts signed under the country’s energy sector reform if elected to office. In a roundtable talk with the Milenio television station aired late Wednesday, the leftist candidate said he would seek to revoke any contracts that did not benefit Mexico through appropriate legal channels. “The procedure to revoke contracts, if they are bad, will be legal, we will not act in an authoritarian, arbitrary way,” said Lopez Obrador, who is leading polls for July 1 presidential elections. “We are going to cancel the so-called educational reform,” Lopez Obrador said. Lopez Obrador, who has gained support from evangelical Christians, avoided discussing his own personal views on those issues, saying he wants to focus first on areas where there is broad agreement, like fighting corruption.

Source: National Post March 22, 2018 18:22 UTC