Mexican lawmakers reject constitutional electricity reforms at the centre of diplomatic tensions with the United States in a blow to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Morena party and its allies only have 277 seats out of a total of 500 in the Chamber of Deputies, and the opposition bloc had vowed to vote against the legislation.
After a marathon session in the lower house of Congress on Easter Sunday, Lopez Obrador's Morena party failed to secure the two-thirds majority needed to amend the constitution. Lopez Obrador promoted the changes to strengthen the state-owned electricity provider and roll back the effects of liberalisation under previous governments that he says favoured private companies.
But Jorge Romero of the conservative National Action Party argued that the bill would put the country "back 50 years" in efforts to protect the environment.
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